Blog Posts: speaker

Reverend Jen Bailey

Reverend Jen Bailey is an ordained minister, a public theologian, and a national leader in the multi-faith movement for justice. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Faith Matters Network and Co-Founder of The People’s Supper. The Center for American Progress...

Donald Quick

Donald Quick is a science educator at Rosemead High School and a parishioner at All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena. He has participated in and co-facilitated My Work To Do online affinity spaces, fostering anti-racist understandings and stamina building for social...

Samia Bano

Samia Bano is the Interfaith Coordinator for IslamiCity and a member of The Guibord Center Advisory Council. She serves as co-host of the Inspiring Stories online series, a collaboration between the two organizations. Known as the Happiness Expert, Samia is author of...

Ally Hawkins

Ally Hawkins was born and raised in the American South. There, she spent the majority of her life in what she considers radical evangelical fundamentalist religious spaces, steeped in both white supremacy and Christian Nationalism. She homeschooled her four children...

Saira Sayeed

​Saira  Sayeed was born in Pakistan to a Christian mother and a Muslim father and migrated to Canada with her parents when she was three...

Claire Dietrich Ranna

The Rev. Claire Dietrich Ranna is the Rector of Christ Episcopal Church and the Chaplain to Ventana School, a Reggio Emilia inspired Pre-...

Kersi Bhikhaji Shroff

Mr. Kersi Bhikhaji Shroff, a Parsi born in Karachi, India, is an independent student of the Zoroastrian religion and its traditions. His...

Aziza Hasan

Aziza Hasan

Aziza Hasan, named an influencer by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, is the executive director of NewGround: A...

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Imam Jihad Turk

Imam Jihad Turk

Imam Jihad Turk is the founding president of Bayan Islamic Graduate School in Claremont, California, and a nationally...

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Dr. Beth Ribet

Dr. Beth Ribet

Dr. Beth Ribet is the director and cofounder of Repair, a nonprofit that engages in research, education, and advocacy...

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Bishop John H. Taylor

Bishop John H. Taylor

The Right Reverend John Harvey Taylor began ministry as seventh bishop of the six-county Episcopal Diocese of Los...

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Jennifer Ortiz

Jennifer Ortiz

Jennifer Ortiz is a teacher and writer whose work and spiritual practice are informed by principles of equity,...

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Tahil Sharma

Tahil Sharma

An interfaith activist, Tahil Sharma was born to a Hindu father and a Sikh mother. Following the Oak Creek, WI...

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Tasneem Noor

Tasneem Noor

Tasneem Noor is Program Co-Director for NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership For Change. Raised in Pakistan, India,...

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