Hazel Weiser, Executive Director, is a graduate of The George Washington University and Brooklyn Law School. Hazel began her career in San Francisco litigating plaintiffs’ antitrust class actions, then engaged in a criminal defense practice before moving from adjunct to full time law teaching and administration.  She taught Constitutional Law, Federal Jurisdiction, Appellate Advocacy, and Critical Analysis of the Burger Court at New College of California and JFK University School of Law, where she served as associate then acting dean.  In 1987 she returned to New York, joining the faculty of Touro Law Center where she served as a professor then director of its legal writing program for ten years.  At Touro, she developed an orientation program that introduced students to professionalism that highlights civility and tolerance, devised the academic support program, and developed the writing center. 

In 1997, Hazel left Touro to work in the nonprofit sector, developing funding proposals and strategic plans for a variety of community-based organizations.  In 2002, she became director of foundation advancement at the Long Island Community Foundation, a division of The New York Community Trust.  Hazel was a Nassau County Human Rights Commissioner and is currently a member of the Nassau Academy of Law advisory board where she develops continuing legal education programs for the local bar association.  In June 2008, she was awarded the Virginia C. Duncombe Scholarship Award by the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association for her contributions to legal education. 

Elizabeth Luzzi, Assistant to the Executive Director, joined the staff at SALT in March 2009.