GLEN GIBELLINA Community Activist Photojournalist
Board Member, The Jericho Project
Glen was born in Chicago, Illinois. He has resided in Manatee/Sarasota for over 40 years. He has been a member of Habitat for Humanity since 1970 and has built 50 homes with Habitat, and in 1992 he spent time building with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in South Dakota on the very first Native American Reservation in the country. Glen is a retired Florida General Contractor dba Evergreen Construction, LEED certified.
He worked to build modular homes during hurricanes Andrew, Charlie and Katrina. He built Modular SIPS Homes for Homefront Homes in Englewood FL. He brought Remote Area Medical to Manatee County after volunteering at several RAM events in the US that resulted in over 3 million dollars of FREE health care in Manatee County over the last 4 years. Currently Glen is instructing Bayshore High School students to build affordable housing out of shipping containers. The current progress can be seen at www.uncontained360.com. His favorite quote is “Failure is not an option”
Board Member, The Jericho Project
Glen was born in Chicago, Illinois. He has resided in Manatee/Sarasota for over 40 years. He has been a member of Habitat for Humanity since 1970 and has built 50 homes with Habitat, and in 1992 he spent time building with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in South Dakota on the very first Native American Reservation in the country. Glen is a retired Florida General Contractor dba Evergreen Construction, LEED certified.
He worked to build modular homes during hurricanes Andrew, Charlie and Katrina. He built Modular SIPS Homes for Homefront Homes in Englewood FL. He brought Remote Area Medical to Manatee County after volunteering at several RAM events in the US that resulted in over 3 million dollars of FREE health care in Manatee County over the last 4 years. Currently Glen is instructing Bayshore High School students to build affordable housing out of shipping containers. The current progress can be seen at www.uncontained360.com. His favorite quote is “Failure is not an option”