Marium Mohiuddin

Marium Mohiuddin

​Marium F. Mohiuddin is the Regional Communications Director for the American Red Cross Los Angeles Region. In this role, she works on disaster response, biomed relations and preparedness.

Marium has worked in communications and publishing for the past 25 years. After receiving her bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University, she joined the Austin American-Statesman newspaper as a features editor.

In addition, Marium has been editor in chief and managing editor of several magazines and an international manager for the American Heart Association. Her nonprofit work includes leading the communications team at the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and volunteering with Meals on Wheels and Big Brothers Big Sisters.

In 2014, Marium turned her passion for communications into a consulting business working with small nonprofits and female entrepreneurs. She went back to school to get her MBA in nonprofit management at American Jewish University.

Active in the Los Angeles interfaith scene, Marium serves on four boards and donates her time to bringing people together. She has spoken widely on interfaith relations and civic engagement and appeared in media outlets including CNN, NPR, and The Hollywood Reporter.

Marium is also a member of The Guibord Center’s Advisory Council.

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

​

Moira-Cecily Brady-Rogers

Moira-Cecily Brady-Rogers

Moira-Cecily Brady-Rogers is a Duke University Integrative Medicine–trained integrative health coach with extensive experience as a licensed marital and family therapist, spiritual director and yoga teacher. With the 2015 launch of Alive and Well Women, she started something she wishes had existed 25 years ago as she began finding her own path toward being alive and well. Alive and Well Women is a nonprofit organization that empowers women to practice and support one other in compassionate self-care and inspires them to authentic self-love and positive female identity development.

As a therapist, coach, spiritual companion, teacher and mentor, Moira-Cecily brings her own past suffering, healing, and rediscovery of inherent Belovedness, goodness and power to those she journeys alongside. She believes that our symptoms, coping behaviors, and relational challenges all reflect our struggle to love and be loved. We are created by love, for love, to love, and when our basic need for a sense of our Belovedness wasn’t adequately nourished in early childhood, our disordered states and destructive patterns show up to call us back to Love.

Along with the programs offered through Alive and Well Women, Moira-Cecily provides individual therapy, coaching and spiritual direction services. She has a special affinity for women recovering from #MeToo related traumas, post-evangelical Christians and spiritual seekers who believe in a Love that is far greater than any religious or spiritual tradition and will do for us what we can’t do ourselves – and who want that belief to be an integral part of therapy. She is a clinical member of the California Association of Marital and Family Therapists and the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals. 

Speaker, Praying With Our Bodies​

Daibik Chakraborty

Daibik Chakraborty

Rabbi Susan Goldberg

Daibik Chakraborty is currently a second-year student at UCLA studying public affairs and economics. He has a love of public speaking and civil discourse and plans to enter the legal field after graduation. Daibik is a member of the Vedanta community in Los Angeles. Apart from all things academic and professional, he recently got into cubing and is trying to beat his personal record for solving a Rubik’s cube (currently standing at just below 1:30).

Storyteller, Healing Our World: The Power of Nonviolence

 

Merilie Robertson

Merilie Robertson

A social justice advocate and retired teacher, Merilie Robertson taught science at Forman High School for Girls in Lahore, Pakistan for 11 years. Following that time, she spent 11 more years at the Community School in Tehran, Iran. On her return to the United States, Merilie developed an interest in Latin America. She made several short-term trips to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Colombia, advocating for change in U.S. policies there.

In 1994-95, Merilie spent 10 months working with the women’s organization of the Moravian Church on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Following that, she went to Guatemala for two months, accompanying Pastor Lucio Martinez, who had been threatened by a death squad. Merilie also has worked with No More Deaths, a faith-based coalition dedicated to stopping migrant deaths in the Arizona desert and enacting immigration reform principles. Most recently, Merilie has focused on visiting people incarcerated at the Adelanto immigration detention facility. She is retired and lives in Pasadena.

Storyteller, Healing Our World: The Power of Nonviolence​

Milia Islam-Majeed

Milia Islam-Majeed

Rabbi Susan Goldberg

In 2008, Milia Islam-Majeed became Executive Director of the South Coast Interfaith Council (SCIC), California’s largest and oldest interfaith council. The daughter of parents who immigrated from Bangladesh, she grew up in small-town Fulton, Missouri. Milia earned her undergraduate degree in World Religions and Psychology from Westminster College and moved to Boston. In 2004, she received a master’s degree from Harvard University in Theological Studies of the World Religions and Anthropology.

Milia has spoken worldwide about her interfaith work. Her honors include receiving one of eight national USA Network 2010 Character Unite Awards and receiving the NAACP 2011 Woman of the Year award in Long Beach. The USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture and Interreligious Council of Los Angeles named her a 2015 Future-50 Emerging Leader. This honor recognizes people under age 35 who are shaping the LA faith landscape.

In 2017, Milia became one of 11 international research fellows at the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. Her research focuses on the intersection of Islam and ethics. In 2020 she was named the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68 Distinguished Alumni Honoree. This award honors alumni whose excellence in life, work, and service pays homage to the mission and values of HDS and Peter J. Gomes, STB ’68.

Storyteller, Healing Our World: The Power of Nonviolence​