The Glynwood Fellows program provides a flexible structure within which Glynwood works with selected professional colleagues in new ways, while affording them the opportunity to use Glynwood as a place to work, write, reflect, and relax.

Glynwood’s work with each Fellow begins with a specific joint project, while other ways of working together may develop. For example, fellows are invited to participate in and contribute to Glynwood programs and events as speakers and panelists, when appropriate. Fellows also provide advice to Glynwood’s President and other staff on areas of common interest and serve as a sounding board for program ideas.

While at Glynwood, Fellows are provided with accommodations and access to office facilities when on site. Fellows are also welcome to host meetings at Glynwood with professional colleagues on matters relevant to land use and agriculture and other topics of interest to Glynwood, and to bring colleagues to Glynwood for meetings to introduce them to our staff and programs.

Relationships with Fellows are anticipated to last at least a year, but each is shaped by the particular situation of that Fellow and the focus of his/her work with Glynwood.

For information about applying as a Glynwood Fellow, contact Judy LaBelle.

Current Fellows

Joel Russell, Esq.
Joel Russell is a land use attorney and planning consultant based in Northampton, Massachusetts. His practice focuses on six primary areas: zoning for smart growth, affordable housing, urban revitalization, protection of open space and community character, implementation of traditional town plans, and public participation in planning. Joel’s clients include cities, towns, counties, land trusts, conservation organizations, landowners, regional planning agencies, and new urbanist developers. His work products include zoning ordinances and other land use regulations, diagnostic planning studies, conservation easements, and concise comprehensive plans that emphasize goals and actions. Joel has served as Executive Director of the Dutchess Land Conservancy and as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Bard College.

The focus of Joel’s work as a Glynwood Fellow is an analysis of the effectiveness of community zoning plans enacted to protect and encourage agriculture.

Joan Snyder
Joan Snyder founded Frog Hollow, Inc., which provides agricultural consulting activities to clients including agricultural coops, partnerships, international agencies, and corporations in the US and abroad. Representative assignments include analysis of political and economic events in the US for Australasian quasi-governmental agencies, general financial advice for corporate entities, capital acquisition and merger activity.

Joan is also the Founder of Hollow Road Farms, Inc., and of Hollow Road Foods, Inc., through which she created and managed a 500 ewe sheep dairy farm, the first in the United States, and a commercial-scale creamery. Hollow Road established the first recognized brand of sheep’s milk yogurt and cheese with national wholesale distribution.

Joan has also been an Executive Director of Merrill Lynch International, in London and Vice President of Merrill Lynch Money Markets and Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York.

The focus of Joan’s work as a Glynwood Fellow is exploring innovative financial techniques to encourage landowners to keep their land in production and she has shared her expertise at Glynwood-sponsored workshops. She is also playing a key role in the slaughterhouse task force initiative.

For information about applying to be a Glynwood Fellow, contact Judy LaBelle.