Hazel Weiser, Executive Director, joined SALT as its first professional staff in September 2007.  She is a graduate of The George Washington University and Brooklyn Law School. After a career as a plaintiff's antitrust attorney and six years in criminal  defense, she joined the academy full time as a law professor and then a dean.  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. 

In 1997, Hazel left Touro to work in the nonprofit sector.  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.  Elizabeth's passion is landscape design. In August 2011, Elizabeth enrolled in graduate school where she will be studying for her masters' degree in landscape architecture, and continuing to work for SALT parttime during her studies.