Rabbi Yechiel Hoffman

Rabbi Yechiel Hoffman

Rabbi Yechiel, EdD, is U.S. Director of Jewish Interactive, an online platform with a mission to offer high-quality Jewish and Hebrew education to children everywhere. Rabbi Yechiel empowers individuals to embark on personal journeys through meaningful collective learning experiences. As a community activist, he serves as a rabbinic adviser, activist, and outreach expert for issues related to LGBTQIA+ inclusion, women’s issues, and education. His educational leadership has enriched the Jewish journeys of children and adults in such diverse settings as Jewish day schools, community organizations, and synagogues, and now online in his current role.

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Rosa Manriquez

Rosa Manriquez

Dany Doueiri

A third generation Latinx mother and grandmother, Rosa Manriquez grew up in East Los Angeles. She is active in Holy Wisdom Catholic Community and the Immaculate Heart Community. But Rosa’s main focus is outside the walls of the institutional church. Her ministry is for all who are or have been made to feel unwelcome. 

In the Immaculate Heart Community, she participates on the Commission on Justice for Immigrants and Refugees and the Antiracism Task Force. Rosa serves on the Antiracism Team and in other areas for Call To Action, the largest national progressive Catholic organization. Through A La Familia, part of the Human Rights Campaign, she has been a trainer and speaker. She is featured in the film, “Before God We Are All Family.”

A lifelong Catholic, Rosa attended school with the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary from first grade through college. She also holds a Master of Arts in theology.  “My passion is my familia that inspires and delights me constantly,” Rosa says of her two daughters, their wives, and her three grandchildren.  “And I also love Star Trek.”

Storyteller, Healing Our World: Exploring Gender Equality

Nurjahan Boulden

Nurjahan Boulden

Dany Doueiri

Nurjahan Boulden grew up belly dancing. It was a source of personal empowerment that she dreamed of sharing with the world – until a bullet stopped her in her tracks. She was shot with an assault rifle in a random attack at age 21. The depression, anxiety, and physical complications that followed fractured Nurjahan’s trust in God and her belief in Islam.

It wasn’t until 10 years later that she shared her story publicly for the first time. That was when Nurjahan began the spiritual journey of rebuilding her faith and learning how to dance again. She’s now a belly dance instructor, a storyteller, and a fierce advocate for survivors of gun violence. Nurjahan’s story of resilience as a Muslim woman, a survivor, a mother, and a dancer has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health Magazine, dozens of podcasts, and shows on stages across the country.

Storyteller, Healing Our World: Exploring Gender Equality​

Rev. Michael Reid Trice, PhD

Rev. Michael Reid Trice, PhD

Dr. Michael Trice,  Ph.D, EMBA is the Founding Director of the Seattle University Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement (CEIE) and Spehar-Halligan Professor.

He serves as a Faculty-Administrator who is a constructive theologian with over three decades of experience in organizational development, comparative religious studies, ecumenical dialogue, cultural and religious pluralism, and a commitment to interdisciplinary constructive approaches within team-based leadership. As a professional rooted in disciplines that include philosophy, literature, theology, history and entrepreneurial-organizational advancement, he revels in seeking collaboration across disciplines, and values utilizing creative and innovative methodologies and technologies for creating viable responses to the challenges in our communities and world today. 

He also served the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in the Office of Ecumenical and Inter-religious Relations and represented Bishop Mark Hanson as President of the Lutheran World Federation on President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

As well as being an accomplished author, editor, fund-raiser, visionary and beloved educator, Dr. Trice was a cherished colleague, collaborator and dear friend of the late Rev. Dr. Gwynne Guibord. He continues as a deeply valued friend and colleague to Dr. Lo Sprague and The Guibord Center where he continues to serve alongside The Guibord Center on the National Council of Churches’s Buddhist-Christian Dialogue and Hindu-Christian Dialogues and is currently working with Dr. Lo on the vital role of spirituality in creating a successful, nonviolent vision of confronting the current Administration’s policies of cruelty and oppression.  

In 2023, Dr. Trice was awarded the prestigious Gwynne M. Guibord Award for Excellence in Interreligious Leadership from the National Council of Churches in Christ in the USA.

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Zachary S. Ritter

Zachary S. Ritter

Zachary S. Ritter is Associate Dean of Students at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He also teaches social justice history there and at UCLA. He recently co-edited Marginality in the Urban Center: The Costs and Challenges of Continued Whiteness in the Americas and Beyond and has a new co-edited book forthcoming: Whiteness, Power, and Resistance to Change in U.S. Higher Education: A Peculiar Institution.

Storyteller, Healing Our World: Addressing Cancel and Call-out Culture​