Neil Saul
Assistant Director of Programs, Eradicate Hate
2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Neil Saul serves as Assistant Director of Programs for Eradicate Hate. In this role, he leads the Prevention Practitioners Network (PPN), the Reach Out Resource Hub, several working group initiatives, and coordinates their annual marquis event, the Eradicate Hate Global Summit.
As the largest network in the U.S. dedicated to building capacity among practitioners working to prevent all forms of targeted violence through a public health approach, Neil leads the development of PPN’s workshops, trainings, and outreach. Now over 2,300 practitioners, he spearheads the growth of PPN and provides those professionals with the available relevant tools and research to inform their practice.
Neil manages the development of the Reach Out Resource Hub, a platform providing supportive resources for bystanders, friends, loved ones, survivors, victims, and even those most at risk for committing acts of targeted and hate-fueled violence. In his capacity with Eradicate Hate, he also coordinates several working groups and the development of their initiatives, designs and conducts programmatic surveys, leads their artificial intelligence resource assistant, and oversees the logistics for the Global Summit.
He serves on the Editorial Board for Homeland Security Today’s Prevention vertical.
Before joining Eradicate Hate, he worked as the senior program coordinator for preventing targeted violence at the McCain Institute, where he worked to grow the Prevention Practitioners Network and other preventing targeted violence programs.
Neil holds a master’s degree in U.S. foreign policy and national security from the American University in Washington, D.C., where he focused on human rights and mass atrocity prevention. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and sociology from the University of Georgia. He has previously worked for the McCain Institute, the Cato Institute, the International Rescue Committee, AirWars, and the Military Commissions Defense Organization.
At the Summit
The effort to eradicate hate requires the active participation of every component of our society, to include governments, the private sector, communities of faith and indeed every aspect of civil society. There is no more urgent task in front of us. The organizers of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit are doing the United States and the world an enormous service by tackling hatred and extremism with a focus on honest dialogue and conversation, genuine learning and practical solutions. This will not happen overnight, but the Pittsburgh community’s leadership in this effort is genuinely inspiring and motivating.
