Blog Posts: speaker

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 early years were spent at the tail end of colonial British rule in India and saw the creation of the new country of Pakistan...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Josué Emmanuel Muñoz

Josué Emmanuel Muñoz (they/them) is a SoCal-based Latinxx transmedia storyteller and mindful media educator from West Chicago. Raised...

endawnis Spears

endawnis Spears (Diné/ Ojibwe/ Chickasaw/ Choctaw) is an educator working in the public humanities.  She received her Bachelor of Arts...

Nancy Berlin

Nancy Berlin has worked to combat poverty for over 40 years. She has worked in family shelters, on Los Angeles’s skid row, and organized...

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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Dr. Daniel E. Walker

Dr. Daniel E. Walker

Dr. Daniel E. Walker is an internationally recognized scholar, filmmaker and public speaker working in the fields of...

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