Our Story

Global Language Project (GLP) is the only nonprofit organization in New York City that is tackling equality in education from a language perspective.

GLP was founded by Angela Jackson. Nurtured by her experience traveling for work and living abroad, Angela saw first-hand that children in other countries were not only multilingual at an early age, but that their ability to speak more than one language positioned them more competitively for opportunities in higher education and the global marketplace. From this experience, Angela established GLP in 2009. Her goal was to give U.S. students an opportunity to become proficient in a foreign language, focusing specifically on elementary schoolchildren in underserved public schools.

Angela joined her corporate-management experience with the expertise of language educators and public schools to create a unique, six-year curriculum and program that teaches critical-needs foreign languages to underserved schoolchildren. Called the GLP Program, it is offered free to select students in New York City’s underserved elementary schools. The first after-school GLP Program launched in September 2009 at P.S. 368 Hamilton Heights School in Harlem, offering third-graders the opportunity to learn Chinese Mandarin or Spanish.