Gwendolyn Hallsmith Executive Director

Global Community Initiatives

Gwendolyn Hallsmith, the Executive Director of GCI, has over 25 years of experience working with municipal, regional, and state government in the United States and internationally. She has served as a Municipal Manager, a Regional Planning Director, Senior Planner for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy Resources, the Deputy Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, and as an international specialist on sustainable community development. Her international experience has included work with the United Nations Environmental Program, the United Nations Development Program, the Institute for Sustainable Communities, the International City/County Management Association, the Academy for Educational Development, and Earth Charter International. For the past few years, she has been a divinity student at the Andover Newton Theological School, and has served as the pastor of the United Federated Church in Williamstown, Vermont. She is very interested in the links between our wisdom traditions, spirituality, and work on the community level.