Blog Posts: speaker

Janet K. Allen and Farrokh Mistree

Janet K. Allen holds the John and Mary Moore Chair in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Farrokh Mistree holds the L. A. Comp Chair in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Both have been...

Tanya Sadagopan

Rev. Dr. Tanya Sadagopan Rev. Dr. Tanya Sadagopan is an ordained United Church of Christ minister currently serving in Concord, New Hampshire. She has served in churches in Southern Wisconsin and the greater Chicago area. Her commitments include inclusive ministries...

Michelle Mekky

Michelle Mekky is an award-winning broadcast journalist and public relations executive and a passionate advocate for interfaith issues.   The daughter of immigrants from Poland and Ireland, she is married to an Egyptian Muslim.  Michelle was raised in a very observant...

Lisa Patriquin

Lisa Patriquin is The Guibord Center’s Program Director for Youth and Young Adults.  She forms partnerships with schools and educators to increase religious and interfaith literacy, and promote open discourse about religion and spirituality as an aspect of identity....

John Silvers

John Silvers has always been an active community leader. His communication skills and leadership qualities were passed down to him by his...

Rabbi Eric Solomon

Rabbi Eric Solomon is the leader of Beth Meyer Synagogue in Raleigh, NC.  He completed facilitator training with Re-Setting the Table and...

Wendy Silvers

Rev. Wendy Silvers helps moms embody their highest potential, raise healthy, empowered kids and change the world through vision and grace....

Rabbi Susan Goldberg

Rabbi Susan Goldberg

​Rabbi Susan Goldberg is the founder of Nefesh, an open-hearted spiritual community capturing the energy and vitality...

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Hedab Tarifi

Hedab Tarifi

Born in Gaza, Palestine, Hedab Tarifi moved to the U.S. after the first Gulf War. She has been active in the Southern...

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Rabbi Sharon Brous

Rabbi Sharon Brous

Rabbi Sharon Brous is the senior and founding rabbi of IKAR.Begun in 2004, IKAR has become a model for Jewish...

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Stephen Rohde

Stephen Rohde

Stephen Rohde is a constitutional lawyer, lecturer, writer and political activist. He co-founded and currently serves...

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Rev. James M. Lawson

Rev. James M. Lawson

The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. is internationally recognized as the leading strategist and trainer to U.S. nonviolence...

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Tim Phillips

Tim Phillips

Tim Phillips co-founded Animal Defenders International (ADI) together with Jan Creamer. With offices in Los Angeles,...

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Dany Doueiri, PhD

Dany Doueiri, PhD

Born in the Congo, Dany Doueiri, PhD grew up in Lebanon. He pursued his college education in the United States,...

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Andrea Hodos

Andrea Hodos

After five years as program co-director at NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, Andrea Hodos recently...

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