Title Here P 1 Table of Contents

Title Here p 1 Table of Contents

Welcome!...... 1

Getting the Most Out of the Conference...... 2

Conference Overview...... 4

Special Events...... 6

Plenary Sessions...... 10

Workshops: Sunday, October 25...... 18

Workshops: Monday, October 26...... 28

Workshops: Tuesday, October 27...... 39

Thank You to Our Donors...... 46

Thank You To Our NGO Sponsors...... 47

Conference Schedule...... 48

Map of Norris...... back cover Welcome! p 1

Dear Friends, This conference allows us to feel the pulse of the interfaith movement. Your lives, projects and presence make up the beat and strength of that pulse. At this conference, you will learn from and be challenged by the workshops and speakers, but you will grow the most by engaging deeply with one another. Take time to hear each other’s stories. Encourage one another. Envision new ways of doing things together. If nothing else, harness the creative potential of our collective imagination. Many organizations have conferences, what will make this moment unique is what happens after. IFYC was born out of a few young idealists dreaming big at a very similar conference in San Francisco eleven years ago. I am challenging you to do the same — allow this space to be an incubator and sounding board for your future as an interfaith leader. You have over 500 people standing beside you. Your leadership in this movement has never been more important. To the Center for Civic Engagement at Northwestern University: thank you for helping us make this a reality. To participants: thank you for your presence and the incredible work you do. Sincerely,

Eboo Patel Executive Director, Interfaith Youth Core p 2 Getting the Most Out of the Conference

Bridge-builders Network Connecting to the Norris Wondering how you can stay Wireless Network in touch with the people you meet during the conference? Free wireless is available in Norris University Are you looking for high- Center for a limited number of conference par- quality resources on interfaith organizing on your campus ticipants. Visit the information desk to learn or in your community? Become a member of the Bridge- how to log on! builders Network! Tell Me Your Story! Bridge-builders is an online social network that provides peer-driven resources and connections for interfaith leaders. You can read blogs about events happening around the world, join a group of interfaith leaders in your local area, download new resources every month, and upload pictures and videos from your work to share with the network. Sign-up now using one of the computers in the Louis Lobby, or by logging on to bridge-builders.ning.com! During the conference, Bridge-builders Blogs page will allow you to share your personal insights, while keeping up with your favorite workshops and other presentations you might have missed! Sign-up now using one of the computers in the Louis Make your voice heard! You may notice people running Lobby or by logging on to bridge-builders.ning.com! around in blue t-shirts that read “Tell Me Your Story!” They will be recording and collecting the stories of conference Social Media participants through audio and video to showcase on Bridge Builders, YouTube, Vocalo.org and more. Your story Use the Twitter hash tag #IFYC09 to remain matters - share it with IFYC’s network and help put stories up to date on everything happening at the con- of interfaith cooperation into the world! ference and meet fellow participants that are Twitter users. Use this tag whenever you tweet about the conference, and follow us at www.twitter.com/ifyc! Keep up with our Facebook Fan Page at www. facebook.com (search “Interfaith Youth Core” to find us or go to our page directly using Bit.ly: http://bit.ly/c5Q5e). It’s the best way to follow IFYC at the conference. Though Facebook, you automatically access the Twitter Feed and have access to our YouTube videos and Flickr pictures. You will also be able to sound off in conference polls and discussion boards and access Bridge-builders blogs through our RSS feed. Visit IFYC’s YouTube Channel: www.youtube. com/InterfaithYouthCore. Upload your own videos from the conference and tag them “IFYC09”, “IFYC”, and “Interfaith Youth Core”. Check out the Interfaith Youth Core Flickr group here: www.flickr.com/groups/interfaithyouthcore. Join our group and add your own pictures from the conference! Be sure to tag them “IFYC09”, “IFYC”, and “Interfaith Youth Core”. Getting the Most Out of the Conference p 3 p 3

Books that Build the Movement About Norris University Center Stop by the Barnes & Noble Books on the ground floor of As the Community center of Northwest- Norris and look for the “Leadership for a Religiously Di- ern University’s students, faculty, staff, verse World,” display. You can purchase books by plenary alumni, and guests, the Norris University speakers and workshop presenters, like plenary speak- Center provides services and programs er Jim Wallis’ The Great Awakening and Hearing the Call designed to benefit members of the Uni- Across Traditions: Readings on Faith and Service, edited by versity family. Through various forms of workshop presenter Adam Davis. involvement and as an integral component of the university, Norris Center offers students direct experiences in Need help? participatory decision-making and educates for leadership and social responsibility in an effort to complement Wondering where your next workshop is? Have a classroom learning. question about IFYC’s programs? If you have any questions while you’re at the conference, feel Leadership for a Religiously Diverse World is proud to have free to stop by the information table in Louis Lobby. We Norris University Center as its Conference home. We invite will always have someone available to answer your ques- you explore the facility and take advantage of all that it has tions. You can also learn more about how to bring IFYC to to offer-whether you want to grab a tee shirt from the Nor- your campus for a training or consultation, find out about ris Bookstore, play a round of pool in the Game Room, or job opportunities, and buy our Interfaith Leader’s Toolkit, enjoy a latte at Starbucks. As you discover this wonderful or sign up for our Bridge-builders Network. In addition to venue, please keep in mind that on Conference weekdays coming to the registration table, look for IFYC staff and the Center will be hosting students and other activities. volunteers who are wearing special ribbons on their nametags. We’re here to help! About Evanston, IL While you are here with us, we encourage you to explore Luggage Room all that Evanston has to offer. Located just north of Chicago, During the conference, luggage can be stored in the Eigh- Evanston has a stunning natural setting on Lake Michigan teen Fifty-One Room (Room 201). Check-in at the info with unique business districts, attractive homes on tree- table if you need to store luggage. lined streets, and pleasant public parks. You can find more information about shopping, dining, sports, theatre, muse- About the Center for Civic ums and other great information on their website: www. cityofevanston.org. Engagement

This conference would not be possible without the generous support of the faculty, staff and students of Northwestern University’s Center for Civic Engagement, host of this year’s conference. The Center for Civic Engagement promotes a lifelong commitment to active citizenship and social responsibility among students of all ages. Through an integration of academics, meaningful volunteer service, research, and community partnerships, the Center supports students, faculty, staff, and alumni as they enhance their own academic experiences while contributing to stronger communities and a more engaged university. Find out more: www.engage. northwestern.edu. p 4 Conference Overview

Plenary Sessions Training team. They will also participate in planning sessions on how to implement the Interfaith Youth Core Join the entire conference community to connect with some Campus Hallmarks, and share best practices with one of the leading thinkers in the interfaith youth movement — another. These scholarships are generously supported from policy makers and religious leaders to young people by the McCormick Tribune Foundation and the Nathan on the vanguard of interfaith cooperation. Cummings Foundation. These sessions are for scholarship recipients only. Workshops Want to develop your skills as an interfaith leader? Ready Networking Meals to discover new program models that will help you Mealtimes are your chance to reconnect with old friends strengthen your own local work? The workshops you’ll and colleagues and to meet new partners for interfaith co- have a chance to experience represent the breadth of this operation. Grab a boxed lunch and head to a workshop movement. room to engage in conversation on everything from why interfaith work is not relativism, to best practices for build- Special Workshop Tracks ing city-wide interfaith youth movements. Or go to one of the open workshop rooms and start your own conversa- • Media Training : The Media Training track empow- tion. See the Networking Meals insert for full details and ers young leaders of the interfaith movement to utilize schedule! media in furthering the message of religious pluralism. Working directly with experts at the forefront of media and messaging, participants will gain media production skills, explore innovative approaches to story-telling, and actually produce media pieces and upload them to various online forums! The Media Training track of the conference is generously supported by the Righteous Persons Foundation.

• Speed Faithing Sessions : Led by young leaders within a particular religious tradition, these sessions will bolster your religious literacy, and give you tips on how to best engage that community in interfaith work.

• Interfaith Youth Core Signature Trainings : IFYC’s trainers work with young people and their allies around the world, training them in the knowledgebase, framework and skill set of interfaith leadership. Come experience some of our most popular trainings, and hone your skills as an architect of religious pluralism! • Interfaith Leadership Scholarship Training: Through the Student Interfaith Leadership Scholarship, fifty diverse and exemplary young leaders, all full-time students, have been selected to receive specialized leadership training from IFYC’s Outreach Education and p 6 Special Events

Sneak-preview of The Calling PBS Documentary Series and Q&A with the filmmakers Sunday, October 25, 9 pm McCormick Auditorium Free and open to the public The Calling is a groundbreaking PBS documentary series, premiering in the Fall of 2010, which chronicles the lives of new religious leaders and their diverse educational journeys - from their first days of training, through years of study, and into their early practice as ordained professionals. With them, the viewer experiences the trials and triumphs of balancing leadership and living everyday life; Beth Sternheimer, Coordinating Pro- as young people at their own crossroads, struggling with ducer, Kindling Group partners, family, inequity and other challenges. Filmmak- Beth relocated to Chicago from Bos- ers The Kindling Group invite you into the post-production ton where she worked for 9 years as a process through a special rough-cut sneak peek, and documentary producer and research- would love your insights and feedback as the “insiders” of er for independent films and museum this experience. Stay after for a special Q & A session projects. Prior to The Calling, she was with The Kindling Group’s Danny Alpert and Beth the Associate Producer for Secrecy, an independent docu- Sternheimer. mentary on government secrecy and for Traces of the Trade, Daniel Alpert, Executive Director, Kin- which documents the descendants of the largest slave trad- dling Group ing family in US history as they retrace the Triangle Trade. Both films premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Daniel is a producer, director and and Traces was broadcast on P.O.V. In addition, Beth was editor whose films have aired on PBS, part of a team nominated for a 2009 national Emmy Award HBO and A&E and has been nomi- for Outstanding Research on Traces of the Trade. Beth was nated for an Academy Award and na- also the Associate Producer for Unfinished Symphony, a tional Emmy Awards. His last film, A film exploring a 1971 Vietnam Veterans’ anti-war march Doula Story, documents one woman’s fierce commitment in Massachusetts and the controversy that erupted when to empower pregnant teenagers with the skills and knowl- the protestors attempted to camp on Lexington’s historic edge they need to become confident, nurturing mothers. battlefield. It premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Fes- This film is currently in distribution to Public Television tival and was subsequently broadcast on the Sundance and is the centerpiece of a nationwide community en- Channel. Her museum work includes producing exhibit gagement and education campaign. Previously, Daniel di- videos for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, US rected, produced and wrote A History of God, a two-hour Holocaust Memorial Museum, National Archives and the documentary special for A&E Networks. He co-produced newly built Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Cen- and edited Legacy, a feature length documentary for HBO, ter. Beth holds a BA in history from Oberlin College and which was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award and an MA in American Studies from UMass – Boston. Emmy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was an of- ficial selection at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. Daniel also produced No Time to be a Child, a three-part series that aired nationally on PBS, as well as internationally in over 12 countries. Daniel has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacAr- thur Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Sun- dance Documentary Fund, ITVS, the Irving Harris Founda- tion, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, among others. SpecialTitle Events Here p 7

Film Screening: Pray the Devil Back to Hell and Q&A with filmmaker Gini Reticker

Monday, October 26, 8 pm Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian women who came together in the McCormick Auditorium midst of a bloody civil war, took on the violent warlords Free and open to the public and corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won a long-await- ed peace for their shattered country in 2003. As the rebel noose tightened upon Monrovia, and peace talks faced collapse, the women of Liberia – Christian and Muslims united - formed a thin but unshakable white line between the opposing forces, and successfully demanded an end to the fighting– armed only with white T-shirts and the courage of their convictions. The women of Liberia are living proof that moral courage and non-violent resistance can succeed, even where the best efforts of traditional diplomacy have failed. Stay after for a special Q&A session with director Gini Reticker. Gini Reticker is an Emmy-winning, Academy Award-nominated documentary director and producer. She produced the Academy Award® nominated short Asylum, and the Emmy nominated A Decade Under The Influence. Directing for the PBS Series Wide Angle, Reticker took home an Emmy and the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Ladies First, which focused on the role of women in re- building post-genocide Rwanda. In 2006, Reticker directed The Class of 2006, for Wide Angle, spotlighting the first fifty women in Morocco to graduate from an imam academy in Rabat. Her first film, The Heart of the Matter received the Sun- dance Freedom of Expression Award; Out of the Darkness: Women and Depression garnered both an Emmy and a Gracie Award. Before becoming a producer and director, Reticker worked as an editor on films including: Roger & Me; The Awful Truth: The Romantic Comedy, PBS American Cinema Series; and the Emmy-nominated Fire From the Mountain. p 8 TitleSpecial Here Events

Bridge-builders Awards Reception Monday, October 26, 5:00 pm Join us on Monday night for hors d’oeuvres and the awards ceremony when we announce the winners! Schedule of the evening: 5:00 - 5:45 pm: Bridge-builders Awards Reception — enjoy hors d’oeuvres and conversation in Louis Lobby and surrounding rooms

6:00 pm: Bridge-builders Awards Ceremony 6:45 pm: Bridge-builders Awards Keynote Address — Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism The Bridge-builders Awards Reception will honor excep- tional individuals, programs and organizations in the field of interfaith cooperation. The Bridge-builders Awards Committee received over one hundred nominations, and IFYC is excited to pay tribute to four of these outstanding awardees. We thank all other nominators and nominees for their important contributions to the field. The Bridge-builders Awards will be given in four categories: The Bridge-builders Leadership Award will go to a young person, aged 12-25, who has demonstrated leadership in building sustainable, innovative interfaith cooperation in their local community or at a national level. The Campus Bridge-builders Award will go to an indi- ed several national religious coalitions, including the Co- vidual, event, or program on a campus, or a campus as a alition to Protect Religious Liberty. He serves on the board whole that has engaged religious diversity positively and of numerous national organizations including the NAACP, exemplified interfaith leadership. People For the American Way, Coalition on the Environ- The Community Bridge-builders Award will go to an ment and Jewish Life and the World Bank’s “World Faith De- individual, program or organization that builds interfaith velopment Dialogue.” Rabbi Saperstein was elected in cooperation at the community level, with an emphasis on 1999 as the first Chair of the U.S. Commission on Interna- youth leadership and common action. tional Religious Freedom and was appointed by President Obama as a member of the first White House Council on The Bridge-builders Movement Award will recognize Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Saperstein an institution or individual who has significantly impacted was selected Newsweek magazine as the most influential the interfaith youth movement. rabbi in the country and described in a Washington Post Rabbi David Saperstein represents profile as the “quintessential religious lobbyist on Capitol the Reform Jewish Movement to Con- Hill.” A prolific writer and speaker, Rabbi Saperstein has gress and the Administration as the appeared on a number of television news and talk shows Director of the Religious Action Cen- including Oprah and Nightline. His articles have appeared ter of Reform Judaism. During his over in the Washington Post, the New York Times and the “Har- three-decade tenure at the helm of vard Law Review.” His latest book is Jewish Dimensions of the RAC, Rabbi Saperstein has head- Social Justice: Tough Moral Choices of Our Time. SpecialTitle Events Here p 9

Interfaith Service Projects Around Evanston Tuesday, October 27, 2:30 pm Schedule 2:30 pm: Gather in Louis Room to meet your service project partners and find out where you’ll be working for the afternoon 3:00 pm: Head to your service site to sort through dona- tions, share community with the elderly or work in a community garden 7:00 pm: Return with your service group for facilitated interfaith dialogue, dinner, and a celebration of all your hard work! Interfaith Youth Core is excited to provide an opportunity for conference participants and members of the North- western Community to put the ideal of interfaith leadership into immediate action! If you signed up for the service project, please join us after the closing plenary for an afternoon of interfaith service and dialogue. Participants will serve together in groups placed throughout Evanston and northern Chicago. These projects will be a great opportunity to take common action as well as network with other leaders involved in the interfaith youth movement! The service project is only open to participants who pre- registered. p 10 Plenary Sessions

Opening Plenary Session — to-people and organizational level. Prior to this appoint- ment, she was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of A Vision for Interfaith Leadership State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Before joining the Department of State, she served as the Director for Middle Sunday, October 25, 12:00 pm East Regional Initiatives for the National Security Council. Pandith also served on the staff of the National Security Louis Room Council from December 2004 to February 2007. Prior to Opening Remarks: Dr. Eboo Patel, Founder and Ex- joining the NSC, Special Representative Pandith was Chief ecutive Director, Interfaith Youth Core of Staff for the Bureau for Asia and the Near East for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and from Keynote Speaker: Farah Pandith, Special Representa- 1997 to 2003, she was Vice President of International Busi- tive to Muslim Communities, US Department of State ness for ML Strategies in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to graduate school, Pandith worked at USAID as the Special Eboo Patel is the founder and Execu- Assistant to the Director of Policy. She has also served on tive Director of the Interfaith Youth several boards with a focus on international affairs includ- Core, a Chicago-based institution ing the World Affairs Council of Boston, the Council for building the global interfaith youth Emerging National Security Affairs, and the British-Ameri- movement. As a member of President can Project. She is currently a member of the Board of Obama’s Advisory Council of the Overseers of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, he is working to realize the President’s priority of interfaith cooperation. He is the Evening Plenary Session — A Con- author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the versation on Interfaith Leadership Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Eboo holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He writes “The Sunday, October, 25, 7:00 pm Faith Divide,” a featured blog on religion for The Washing- Pick-Staiger Auditorium ton Post and has also written for the Harvard Divinity School Note: Conference participants will receive a ticket for Bulletin, the Chicago Tribune, The Review of Faith and Inter- national Affairs, The Sunday Times of India and National this event at registration Public Radio. Eboo serves on the Religious Advisory Com- Reverend Jim Wallis, President and Chief Executive mittee of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Nation- Officer, Sojourners; Dr. Eboo Patel, Founder and Ex- al Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation USA. Eboo is a ecutive Director, Interfaith Youth Core Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum and an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select group of social entrepre- Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, neurs whose ideas are changing the world. Eboo was public theologian, speaker, preacher, named by Islamica Magazine as one of ten young Muslim and international commentator on re- visionaries shaping Islam in America and was chosen by ligion and public life, faith and poli- Harvard’s Kennedy School Review as one of five future pol- tics. His latest book is The Great icy leaders to watch. Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post–Religious Right America (Harp- Farah Pandith erOne, 2008). His previous book, God’s Politics: Why the serves as the Spe- Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It (Harper Col- cial Representative lins, 2005), was on the New York Times bestseller list for 4 to Muslim Commu- months. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of So- nities, an office re- journers, where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners maga- sponsible for exe- zine, whose combined print and electronic media have a cuting Secretary readership of more than 250,000 people. Wallis speaks at Clinton’s vision for more than 200 events a year and his columns appear in engagement with major newspapers, including The New York Times, Wash- Muslims around the ington Post, Los Angeles Times, and both Time and News- world on a people- week online. He regularly appears on radio and television, Plenary Sessions p 11 including shows like Meet the Press, the Daily Show with Jon nesota State House of Representatives, from 2003 to 2007. Stewart, the O’Reilly Factor, and is a frequent guest on the While in the State Legislature, he served on the Public news programs of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and Safety, Policy and Finance Committee, and the Election National Public Radio. He has taught at Harvard Divinity and Civil Law Committee. Ellison led efforts to protect School and Kennedy School of Government on “Faith, Poli- Minnesota children from dangerous pesticides and chemi- tics, and Society.” He has written eight books, including: cals; he promoted legislation to restore the voting rights of Faith Works, The Soul of Politics, Who Speaks for God?, and ex-offenders; and he successfully advocated for an in- The Call to Conversion. crease in the state’s minimum wage Representative Ellison serves on the Financial Services and Foreign Affairs Com- Visit Jim Wallis and Sojourners at their website: www.Sojo. mittees. The Financial Services Committee provides over- net and read his daily blog at www.GodsPolitics.com. sight for the nation’s housing and financial services sector, Eboo Patel — for Eboo’s bio, please see previous session while the Foreign Affairs Committee oversees the country’s diplomatic affairs. Directions to Pick-Staiger from Norris University Center: From any location in Norris Center, proceed to the Ground Wayne L. Firestone is the President floor. (From 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor, take the stairs or the el- and CEO for Hillel: The Foundation evator). The Ground Floor is distinctive with modern seating for Jewish Campus Life. He joined and the Food Court, a U.S. Bank Branch, and a Bookstore. Hillel in 2002 as the Founding Execu- tive Director of the Israel on Campus On the Ground floor, locate the Bookstore on the southeast Coalition and later the Executive Vice corner and proceed outside the adjacent double doors. President for Hillel in the United From there, walk straight up the ramp and the Pick-Staiger States. He directed Hillel’s strategic planning committee Concert Hall entrance will be to your left. which developed a comprehensive five year organizational plan. Wayne received his J.D. from Georgetown Univer- Morning Plenary Session — sity Law School and worked for the DC law firm Patton Interfaith Leadership, Boggs. Wayne is a graduate of the University of Miami where he double majored in Judaic Studies and Politics Social Entrepreneurship and Public Affairs and gained national prominence as a Hillel student Soviet Jewry activist, playwright and inter- and Movement Building collegiate debater. Wayne and his wife Stephanie have three daughters and previously lived in Israel for over Monday, October 26, 9:00am eight years where he served as the director of the Israel Louis Room Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League; founded a consulting company — Silicon Wadinet — to support Is- Panelists: Keith Ellison, Fifth Congressional District raeli start-up companies; and lectured on entrepreneur- of Minnesota, U.S. House of Representatives (invited); ship at the Technion. Wayne was twice named by the Jew- Wayne Firestone, President, Hillel: The Foundation for ish Daily Forward as one of the “Forward 50” key influences Jewish Campus Life; Adria Goodson, Director of Domes- who are impacting the way American Jews view the world tic Programs, Hunt Alternatives Fund; Ruth Turner, Di- and themselves. rector and Chief Executive, Tony Blair Faith Foundation; Adria Goodson is the director of do- Moderator: Adam Goodman, Center for Leadership, mestic programs for Hunt Alterna- Northwestern University tives Fund. She is responsible for the Prime Movers: Cultivating Social Keith Ellison serves in the U.S. House Capital program and supervises the of Representatives as a representa- ARTWorks for Kids program team and tive for the Fifth Congressional Dis- the manager of philanthropic giving. trict of Minnesota, which includes the Over the course of her career, she has worked with the City of Minneapolis and the surround- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s After School Project, ing suburbs.Representative Ellison is The Hestia Fund, Resource Generation, and the Boston a member of the Minnesota Demo- College Media Research and Action Project. Dr. Goodson cratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). He previously served spent almost a decade in for-profit and non-profit manage- two terms representing Legislative District 58B in the Min- p 12 Plenary Sessions

ment positions. Through her seven-year career at the Leo ing. For over 25 years, he has been an advisor and speaker Burnett Company in Chicago, she developed advertising to business, the media, the non-profit sector and higher and marketing strategies for McDonald’s Corporation, Kel- education. His work includes serving as co-chair of the Re- logg Corporation, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. search Section of the International Leadership Association Goodson left the agency business to take on the Director and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Johnson & Wales of Marketing position at Chicago Children’s Museum as University. He has given over 100 invited speeches and the museum transitioned from a 14,000 square foot store- workshops and advised dozens of CEOs and other senior front into a 57,000 square foot anchor tenant on the newly officers and executive teams. Dr. Goodman is one of the redeveloped Navy Pier. Dr. Goodson recently published a largest grant recipients in leadership research and educa- chapter entitled “Building Bridges, Building Leaders: The- tion in the United States, receiving major grants from the ory, Action and Lived Experience” in the book Rhyming Ford Foundation and IBM Corp. His current research is the Hope and History: Activists, Academics, and Social Move- development of 6 Leadership Questions®, an assessment ment Scholarship. Goodson has her PhD in sociology, spe- and learning tool. For 12 years, Dr. Goodman was President cializing in movement theory, social policy, and philan- and CEO of the University of Colorado’s Leadership Insti- thropy. She was awarded the W.K Kellogg Foundation tute, the nation’s oldest leadership studies program. Dr. Non-profit Opportunity Leadership fellowship and the Goodman earned a Ph.D. in leadership from the Graduate Boston College President’s fellowship. School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado. Ruth Turner set up the Tony Blair Sports Foundation in November 2007, Afternoon Plenary Session — and is currently chief executive of the Interfaith Leadership and Tony Blair Faith Foundation. Ruth joined the Prime Minister’s Office in May 2005 Religious Identity as Director of Government Relations and worked for Tony Blair until his 2007 Monday, October 26, 2:00 pm resignation. Prior to that, she was an Independent Non Ex- ecutive Director of the Places for People Group Ltd, the UK’s Louis Room largest social housing provider. Previously, Ruth co-founded Panelists: Anju Bhargava, Founder/Convener, Hindu The Big Issue in the North in 1992, which provided work for American Seva Charities; Maha ElGenaidi, President over 500 homeless people each year, and four years later, & Chief Executive of Islamic Networks Group; Greg set up a registered charity, The Big Issue in the North Trust, Epstein, Humanist Chaplain, Harvard University; Skye to help the vendors move away from selling the magazine Jethani, Managing Editor, Leadership Journal, Chris- and get into homes, good health and jobs. Ruth was also a tianity Today; Rabbi Or Rose, Associate Dean of the founding director of Vision 21, a social research and community consultation company and elected by party mem- Hebrew College Rabbinical School and Co-Director bers as a constituency representative to the Labour Party’s of the Center for Interreligious & Communal Leader- National Executive Committee. She was a member of the La- ship Education bour Party’s National Policy Forum, the body responsible for Moderator: Erin Toolis, Faiths Act Fellowship policy development within the Labour Party. She was co- chair, with Margaret Beckett, of the Quality of Life Policy Anju Bhargava is a Senior Vice Presi- commission. In 1999 Ruth was a candidate for the northwest dent at Bank of America. She launched region in the European Parliamentary elections. Global Synergy Associates, an international management consulting firm Dr. Adam Goodman is an award-win- working at the intersection of Enter- ning educator, researcher, and trusted prise Risk Management, Business advisor to leaders of companies, non- Transformation and Organization profit groups and other organizations. Management through a combination of both business and Currently, he directs Northwestern human levers. She is currently a member on President University’s Center for Leadership. Obama’s Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Part- He is also a co-founder and Partner nerships and is a convener of Hindu American Seva Chari- with the NorthStone Group, a management consulting firm ties. Anju began her career over two decades ago as a that focuses on leadership development and decision mak- banker and has held senior level positions in Corporate Plenary Sessions p 13

America. Anju has worked at and consulted for diverse ceived ordination as a Humanist Rabbi from the Interna- companies including Bear Stearns Asset Management, tional Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, where he BB&T Bank, IBM Global Services, Fleet Bank, NatWest USA, studied in Jerusalem and Michigan for five years. He holds Chase Manhattan Bank, Johnson & Johnson family, Health- a BA (Religion and Chinese) and an MA (Judaic Studies) care entities, Booz Allen, MONY, US government agencies, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Masters GenPact (India). Anju has provided management consult- of Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School. In ing and thought leadership to alleviate customer pain late fall 2009 he will publish his first book, Good Without points. She has worked extensively in enhancing enter- God: What a Billion Non-Religious People Do Believe, for prise/operational and credit risk management infrastruc- William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. tures. She created efficient and effective customer-centric, Epstein was the primary organizer of “The New Human- end-to-end, process models to facilitate delivery of prod- ism,” an international conference in honor of the 30th an- ucts and services supporting cross-functional continuous niversary of the Humanist Chaplaincy of Harvard Univer- improvement, process innovation and measurement l(KRIs, sity. He blogs for Newsweek and The Washington Post, and KPIs) leveraging outsourced capabilities. his work as a Humanist rabbi and Chaplain has been featured by publications such as NPR and Newsweek. He is an Maha ElGenaidi is President & Chief adviser to two student groups at Harvard College, the Sec- Executive of Islamic Networks Group ular Society and the Interfaith Council, and to the Harvard (ING). Based in the San Francisco Bay Humanist Graduate Community. He also chairs the Aca- Area, ING is a national educational demic Advisory Board of the national umbrella organiza- outreach organization with affiliates tion the Secular Student Alliance, joining such public fig- and partners throughout the United ures as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. States. ING promotes interfaith dialogue and education about world religions and their con- Skye Jethani serves as the managing tributions to civilization by annually delivering thousands editor of Leadership Journal, a publi- of presentations and other educational programs in schools, cation of Christianity Today Interna- universities, law enforcement agencies, corporations, tional, whose purpose is to equip healthcare facilities, and community centers. ElGenaidi pastors and church leaders for the has spoken to hundreds of schools, churches, synagogues, challenges of ministry in a complex police departments, corporations and other public agen- world. Jethani also contributes regu- cies. She has appeared on numerous television and radio larly to other resources within the Leadership Media programs and is the author of seven training handbooks Group including Out of Ur and Building Church Leaders. on outreach for American Muslims as well as eight training He is a “Featured Preacher” on PreachingToday.com and modules for public institutions on “developing cultural has written for other magazines including Relevant and competency with the American Muslim community”. She Neue Quarterly. Skye has also been a featured commenta- is active with many state and federal government agen- tor on radio programs and in newspapers around the cies and was a former commissioner on Lt. Governor Cruz country on issues of faith, culture, and the church. Skye’s Bustamante’s Commission for One California. She current- first book, The Divine Commodity: Discovering a Faith Be- ly serves on the California Three Rs Advisory Committee, yond Consumer Christianity, was released by Zondervan Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission and is in 2009. Prior to his editorial role with Leadership, Skye an Advisor to California’s Commission on Police Officers served for six years in full-time pastoral ministry at Standards and Training (POST) for cultural diversity and Blanchard Alliance Church in Wheaton, Illinois. During hate crime prevention. Maha has been recognized with nu- this time he helped Blanchard launch a second congre- merous civil rights awards, including the “Civil Rights gation in Warrenville, Illinois, and wrestle with questions Leadership Award” from the California Association of Hu- of mission and spiritual formation in a postmodern, post- man Relations Organizations, and the “Citizen of the Year Christian culture. As a teaching pastor, Skye’s taught adult Award” from the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. classes with a special focus on issues of faith and culture. He continues to serve as a member of Blanchard’s teach- Greg M. Epstein serves as the Hu- ing team and preaches in both Wheaton and Warrenville manist Chaplain at Harvard Universi- regularly. ty and sits on the executive committee of the 36-member corps of Harvard Chaplains. In 2005 he re- p 14 TitlePlenary Here Sessions

Rabbi Or Rose is Associate Dean of Morning Plenary Session — the Hebrew College Rabbinical School and Co-Director of the Center Interfaith Leadership and Critical for Interreligious & Communal Lead- ership Education (CIRCLE), a joint Issues venture of Hebrew College and An- dover Newton Theological School. Tuesday, October 27, 9:00 am Rabbi Rose is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: Man Louis Room of Spirit, Man of Action, a biography for children (Jewish Publication Society), and co-editor of God in All Moments: Panelists: Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, Executive Direc- Spiritual & Practical Wisdom from the Hasidic Masters and tor, African Leaders Malaria Alliance with the Office Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice (both from of the United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria; Jody Jewish Lights). He is currently co-editing Jewish Mysticism Kretzman, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Asset-Based & the Spiritual Life: Classical Texts, Contemporary Reflec- Community Development Institute, Northwestern Uni- tions (Jewish Lights, fall 2010). Rabbi Rose is a contribut- versity; Jennifer Bailey, Bill Emerson National Hunger ing editor for Tikkun and a member of the advisory com- Fellow, Congressional Hunger Center; Geri Mannion, mittee of Sh’ma. Director, U.S. Democracy Program and of the Special Erin Toolis, 23, grew up in the small Opportunities Fund, The Carnegie Corporation of town of Lisbon, Ohio. She received New York her B.S. in psychology and graduated Moderator: Joshua Stanton, The Journal of Inter-Reli- magna cum laude at Denison Univer- sity. It was in college that she fell in gious Dialogue love with interfaith work, becoming a Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur works in the leader in Denison Religious Under- United Nations Office of the Secretary standing and an intern of the Office of Religious Life, where General’s Special Envoy for Malaria. she organized her campus’s first annual Interfaith Week. She leads a project to engage African As a Buddhist, Erin reveres the power of humanity to liber- Heads of State and Government in ate one another from suffering. Her passion for service has meeting United Nation’s Secretary- taken her on many adventures, from New Orleans for hur- General Ban Ki-moon’s goal for uni- ricane relief to Guatemala for construction and farming versal coverage of malaria interventions by December 31, projects to North Carolina as a camp counselor for chroni- 2009 and an end to malaria-related deaths by December cally and terminally ill children. Her interest in the impor- 31, 2015. Previously, Abdul-Ghafur developed and execut- tance of service to personal growth led her to conduct her ed faith-based initiatives, with an emphasis on Muslims in Honors Senior Research project on the effects of service- the West, for Malaria No More, a leading non-profit formed learning on identity development. After graduation, Erin to advance the Millennium Development Goals. From 2005 joined the Lutheran Volunteer Corps to learn about sim- through 2007, she was responsible for sourcing one of the plicity, intentional community and social justice while nation’s largest service days, Hands On Atlanta Day, which working at a non-profit art center for homeless and street hosted 17,000 volunteers in 250 unique service projects. involved youth. Erin enjoys poetry, art, imagination, play- Abdul-Ghafur has committed her personal and profes- ing piano and exploring. She now works as a Faiths Act sional life to advancing the quality of life for women and Fellow in Portland. girls here and abroad. In 2005, she compiled the critically acclaimed anthology, Living Islam Out Loud: American Mus- lim Women Speak (Beacon Press) and has been selected for a variety of local, national and global leadership programs including, most recently, Muslim Leaders of Tomor- row, Doha 2009. She is a recipient of the Kent Place School Young Alumna achievement award and was the first recipient of the United for Change Award for Excellence in Hu- man Service. Plenary Sessions p 15

Jennifer Bailey has worked with Geri Mannion serves as director of young people of different racial, reli- Carnegie Corporation’s U.S. Democ- gious, and socio-economic back- racy Program, bringing to the table a grounds from Chicago to Cusco, Peru. wealth of experience about the role She is a graduate of Tufts University, of philanthropy in challenging, im- where she served as President of the proving and deepening the civic dia- Emerging Black Leaders, Co-Founder logue. She has directed the division of the Tufts Social Justice Arts Initiative, a Citizenship and since 1998, after staffing the Corporation’s program of Public Service Scholar, and an undergraduate representa- Special Projects for almost ten years. Separately, Mannion tive to the Board of Trustees. As an undergraduate, Bailey continues to direct the Corporation’s Special Opportuni- conducted research on affirmative action policies in high- ties Fund, which is housed within the Office of the Presi- er education and the idea of “preference” in college ad- dent. The fund allows the Corporation to respond to pro- missions. Bailey is a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow posals that are important but not related to the foundation’s at Congressional Hunger Center, where she is currently primary foci. Active in professional organizations that completing a field placement at the Food Security Part- work to advance and strengthen the philanthropic and ners of Middle Tennessee in Nashville. Her work is focused nonprofit world, Mannion co-chaired the Funders’ Com- on organizing religious communities to advocate for great- mittee for Citizen Participation from 1993 to 1995, an affin- er food access in three of Nashville’s identified “food des- ity group of funders that encourages foundations to fund erts” — areas with little or no access to healthy food op- voter registration, voting rights, civic education and cam- tions. Specifically, she is working on an interfaith paign finance reform. She remains an active leader in this curriculum to train young people of faith to be effective organization and just completed a second term as co-chair. food justice organizers in their communities. She also serves on the boards of the Grantmakers Con- cerned for Immigrants and Refugees, the Washington Cen- Dr. Jody Kretzmann is co-founder ter for Internships and Academic Seminars and the Center and co-director of the Asset-Based for Development and Population Activities. Community Development (ABCD) In- stitute of the School of Education and Joshua Stanton is a Founding Editor- Social Policy at Northwestern Univer- in-Chief of The Journal of Inter-Reli- sity. The ABCD Institute works with gious Dialogue™ and a rabbinical leaders across North America as well student at Hebrew Union College. He as on five other continents to conduct research, produce is also a founding co-Director of Les- materials and otherwise support community-based efforts sons of a Lifetime™, a nursing home- to rediscover local capacities and to mobilize citizens’ re- based project designed to improve sources to solve problems. The Institute continues to build intergenerational relations and convey leadership skills to on the stories and strategies for successful community youth. A graduate of Amherst College with degrees in his- building reported in his popular book Building Communi- tory, economics, and Spanish, he is the recipient of numer- ties from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobi- ous leadership awards, including the Volunteer Hero lizing a Community’s Assets, written with John McKnight. Award from the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, Before founding the ABCD Institute, he worked as a com- the Hyman P. Moldover Scholarship for Communal Service, munity organizer and community development leader in and a place within the Fellows Alliance of the Interfaith Chicago neighborhoods, and as a consultant to a wide Youth Core. range of neighborhood groups. He has worked to develop community-friendly policies in the city, and at the regional, state, national and international levels. In addition to his work at Northwestern, he has taught with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Urban Studies Program (which he co-founded), Valparaiso University, the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and McCormack Seminary. His B.A. is from Princeton University; his Masters degree from the University of Virginia; and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. p 16 Plenary Sessions

Closing Plenary Session — Rami Nashashibi serves as the Ex- ecutive Director of the Inner-City Interfaith Leadership and Service Muslim Action Network. He is currently a Sociology PhD candidate at Tuesday, October 27, 1:00 pm the University of Chicago. Rami has been an adjunct professor at various Louis Room colleges and universities across the Joshua DuBois, Director, White House Office of Chicagoland area, where he has taught a range of Sociol- Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships; Rami ogy, Anthropology and other Social Science courses. He Nashashibi, Executive Director, Inner-city Muslim Ac- has worked with several leading scholars in the area of tion Network globalization, African American studies and urban sociology and has contributed chapters to edited volumes by Reverend Joshua DuBois is head of Manning Marabel and Saskia Sassen. Nashashibi has lec- the White House Office of Faith-Based tured across the United States and Europe on a range of and Neighborhood Partnerships un- topics related to American Muslim identity, community ac- der President Obama. Joshua gradu- tivism and social justice issues and is a recipient of several ated from Boston University with a prestigious community service and organizing honors, in- degree in political science and cluding the Norman R. Bobbins Fellowship. Nashashibi earned a master’s degree in public and his work with IMAN has been featured in many na- affairs at Princeton. He then enrolled at Georgetown Uni- tional and international media outlets including the BBC, versity Law School, but suspended his pursuit of a J.D. to PBS and a front page story in the Chicago Tribune. In 2007 join then Senator Obama’s presidential campaign. Obama Islamica Magazine profiled Nashashibi as among the 10 hired Joshua in 2005 to spearhead a religious outreach Young Muslim Visionaries Shaping Islam in America and program in his Senate office. He now consults Joshua on all most recently Chicago Public Radio has selected him has faith-related issues. As part of his job, the former associate one of the city’s Top Ten Chicago Global Visionaries. pastor has daily conversations with directors in over 20 federal agencies on strategy. The office seeks to promote partnerships with faith groups on social service issues and helps advise them on applying for federal funding. p 18 Workshops: Sunday, October 25

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm Student Leadership and the “4 Ways continuously for faith-based organizations for almost 20 years, except for taking a brief hiatus to serve with the of Interfaith Dialogue” Peace Corps in Costa Rica.

Katie Brick and F. Javier Orozco, SFO, DePaul Felicia Pulliam has been engaged in community develop- University ment in distressed neighborhoods for over 15 years. She Room: Rock - 207 has been the Economic Development Coordinator of the City of Kinloch for over 8 years. Felicia currently teaches This session will explore how “the 4 Ways of Interfaith law at St. Louis Community College and is the Development Dialogue” provides a philosophical and methodological Director for Interfaith Partnership/Faith Beyond Walls. framework for building successful interfaith student leadership on campus, including how it becomes a strategy to focus student-led programming and garner broader uni- Talking Across Difference: versity support (including financial contributions and ad- Why Do We Serve? ministrative buy-in). Kelli Covey and Adam Davis, Project on Civic Katie Brick is the Interfaith Chaplain at DePaul Universi- Reflection ty. She oversees the Student Interfaith Scholars program across two campuses and works with adult, graduate and Room: Evans - 102 professional students at DePaul’s Loop campus. She has This session will get you thinking deeply and talking inten- an MDiv from Catholic Theological Union and an MBA sively about why you serve — and it will use a Rabindranath from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Tagore poem and a Martin Luther King, Jr. sermon to help F. Javier Orozco, SFO provides pastoral leadership in in- you do so. The session will also introduce you to a practice terreligious and ecumenical ministry to the religious life called ‘civic reflection’ and resources that will help you get at DePaul. His ministry has embraced retreat work, resi- it going. This session is limited to 20 participants, and will be dential ministry, faith-formation and pastoral care ministry. offered again on Monday from 10:30-11:30. Orozco has a Ph.D. (Theology), a B.A./M.A. (Philosophy), Kelli Covey is Director of Programs and Development for and an S.T.B (Systematic Theology), and is a professed the Project on Civic Reflection. Before joining PCR, she brother in the Secular Franciscan Order. was the senior development officer at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Covey also has expe- Sustainable Faith in Action: Case Study rience as a resource development director, web site and marketing strategist and writer. of the City of Kinloch and Faith Beyond Adam Davis is Senior Research and Teaching Associ- Walls ate with the Project on Civic Reflection. He is the editor Beth Damsgaard-Rodriguez and Felicia Pulliam, of Hearing the Call across Traditions and co-editor of The Interfaith Partnership/Faith Beyond Walls Civically Engaged Reader and Talking Service. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago, his MA from Boston Room: Wildcat B - 101B College, and his BA from Kenyon College. Learn how Kinloch, MO, an underserved community on the brink of demise, was revitalized and empowered by Speed Faithing: Sikhism interfaith volunteers over the course of six years. Present- ers will share how residents shifted from being disenfran- Karamjit Dhaliwal, University of California, Davis chised to becoming to leaders in the community because Room: Arch - 206 of the interfaith model of faith in action. Karamjit Dhaliwal is a member of the Student Leadership Beth Damsgaard-Rodriguez is the Executive Director of Team at the Cal Aggie Christian Association, home of the Interfaith Partnership/Faith Beyond Walls. Before her cur- Multifaith Living Community in Davis, CA. A third-year rent position, she was the Director of Service Projects and student in Biological Sciences, Dhaliwal has lived in the Learning for Faith Beyond Walls. She has been working MLC for over a year. On staff, she helps organize multifaith programs, publicity, and outreach. Workshops: Sunday, October 25 p 19

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm A Survey Look at Religious The Idealist’s Journey: City Year’s Peacemaking in Seminary Education Innovative Leadership Development Heather DuBois, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Experience Understanding Marc Morgan, City Year Room: Chicago - 103 Room: Wildcat A - 101A How can or should peacemaking be incorporated into The presenter will provide an introduction and overview of education for religious leadership? The presenter will the Idealist’s Journey, City Year’s leadership development share the unpublished results of interviews with 22 edu- curriculum. Participants will have a chance to engage in cators from 12 institutions, conducted by Tanenbaum in guided reflection, and will be introduced to the leadership the summer of 2009. Participants will be invited to discuss development theory, reflection questions, and guiding es- interfaith, conflict resolution and social justice training in says that make up the Journey. seminaries. Marc Morgan joined City Year in August 2002 to be a Heather DuBois is the Assistant Director of the Tanen- corps member and complete a year of service in Phila- baum Center for Interreligious Understanding’s Religion delphia. Morgan is now National Director of High School and Conflict Resolution program, which identifies, studies, Initiatives. He received his BA in Sociology, BS in Admin- and supports the work of religious peacemakers in con- istration of Justice, and Minor in Information Systems and flict zones. DuBois oversees efforts to reach seminarians, Statistical Analysis from Penn State University. diplomats, conflict resolution practitioners and the general public with research and case studies. Starting an Interfaith Student Council Netpeace: Multifaith Movements on Your Campus and Common Security Tucker Plumlee, University of Denver and Hafsa Arain, Faiths Act Fellowship Anna Halafoff, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) Room: Big Ten - 104 Room: Northwestern Room B - 202B The presenters will lead participants in a discussion of the “how-to’s” of creating sustainable, student-run interfaith Drawing on data gathered from interviews conducted with groups in high schools, colleges and seminaries, taking 50 leading multifaith actors and scholars in the US, UK and you through the very first steps of wondering “Where do Australia, the presenter will argue that multifaith move- I start?” to making sure that the group keeps going long ments can effectively counter global risks, such as terror- after you’re gone! ism and climate change, and advance common security in our ultramodern world. Tucker Plumlee is a senior at the University of Denver majoring in Religious Studies and Philosophy with a minor in Anna Halafoff is a researcher for the UNESCO Chair in In- Sociology; he has studied at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. He terreligious and Intercultural Relations - Asia Pacific, Mo- is president and co-founder of the University of Denver In- nash University. Prior to joining Monash, Anna coordinated terfaith Student Alliance and a member of the Interfaith the Religion & Peace Program at the International Conflict Youth Core Fellows Alliance. Resolution Centre, University of Melbourne. Anna is currently a PhD candidate at Monash, researching Multifaith Hafsa Arain has a Bachelor’s degree in English literature Movements in Ultramodernity. and religious studies from DePaul University in Chicago, where she served as an Interfaith Scholar on her campus, assisting in running the campus Interfaith Council. Cur- rently, she is one of thirty Faiths Act Fellows. p 20 Workshops: Sunday, October 25

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm International Perspectives: for the Melbourne Interfaith Youth Pilgrimage. Freeman also started InterAction: Multifaith Youth Network, which Tools for Promoting Religious engages young people in common action for the common Pluralism in Diverse Communities good. Esti Durahsanti, Petra Christian University (Surabaya, Sarah Talcott is currently serving as the Youth Programs Indonesia); Tobias Jere, Center for Social Concern Director for the United Religions Initiative and the coordi- (Lilongwe City, Malawi); Willy Kasanga, Mangochi nator of the URI’s Global Youth Cooperation Circle. Through Interfaith Dialogue Project (Mangochi, Malawi); Free- her work with young people in the interfaith movement, Sarah has designed, organized and facilitated inter-faith man Trebilcock, InterAction: multifaith youth network and inter-cultural youth retreats, workshops and projects (Melbourne, Australia) in the US and abroad. Moderator: Sarah Talcott, United Religions Initiative Room: McCormick Auditorium De-Polarizing the “Clash:” New Film This panel will explore what young leaders are doing to and Dialogue Initiative Makes Muslim- actively promote religious pluralism in three different re- West Clash Accessible gional contexts – Australia, Malawi and Indonesia. Panel- ists will share about successes they have achieved and Daniel Tutt, 20,000 Dialogues challenges they face, and explore how this work could Room: Northwestern A - 202A be replicated and connected across the global interfaith movement. The presenter will introduce the 20,000 Dialogues practical dialogue strategy for social change through film and Esti Durahsanti is teaching Media Relations and Inter- grassroots interfaith dialogue. Participants will engage in national Public Relations at the Petra Christian University. actual dialogue after watching clips of UPF films, followed Durahsanti has had over 6 years working in the public rela- by a large group discussion about incorporating 20,000 tions field for both foreign private and government institu- Dialogues into participants existing programs, service tions. She also co-founded a media consultant “INDOKOM” projects, and grassroots work. to provide journalism trainings, in-house publication and media consultancy services in Semarang. Daniel Tutt is Outreach Manager for Unity Productions Foundation, a media foundation dedicated to creating films Tobias Bagala Jere, is a Ngoni by tribe from the North- for worldwide broadcast that tell stories about Muslims in ern Province of Malawi. He graduated from the Pontifical history and contemporary society. Tutt also developed Urubanian University of Rome in 1996 in Religious Studies 20,000 Dialogues, which builds greater understanding of and Education. He is also an expert in Non-Violent Conflict Islam by promoting civic engagement and social action Transformation and Mediation. Before joining the Centre around different film and dialogue models. for Social Concern in 2003, Tobias taught in several sec- ondary schools. The Language of Religious Pluralism Willy Kasanga is Project Officer for the Mangochi Inter- faith Dialogue project, a project aimed at promoting tol- Hind Makki, Interfaith Youth Core and Noah Silver- erance and peaceful coexistence between Muslims and man, New York University Christians. He has been involved in the formation of inter- Room: Lake - 203 faith dialogue committees at both the district and village levels. He also initiated a youth sporting project called Have you ever struggled with finding the right words to “Playing together without praying together”. inspire others to join you in working toward interfaith cooperation? This workshop will help you articulate why Freeman Trebilcock has collaborated on numerous in- religious pluralism is important in the world today. Partici- terfaith initiatives including organising and participating pants will learn the basic language to define religious plu- in the ‘Dialogue with the Dalai Lama: Multifaith Forum for ralism as developed by the Interfaith Youth Core. Schools’ as well as coordinating the Buddhist community Workshops: Sunday, October 25 p 21

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm

Hind Makki is a Program Associate in IFYC’s Outreach Noah Silverman has been a leading practitioner and Education & Training department. She travels to college trainer in the interfaith movement for over ten years, dur- campuses, congregations and conferences in the United ing which time he has worked for several national and in- States and Western Europe, offering trainings on religious ternational interfaith organizations in Chicago, New York, pluralism, interfaith service-learning and meaningful in- and Jerusalem. Noah is the author of the Interfaith Leader’s terfaith dialogues. Hind received her BA in International Toolkit and is currently a graduate student studying reli- Relations from Brown University. gion at New York University. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

The 5 C’s of Awareness users with unprecedented reach. We’ll investigate these tools and how the interfaith youth movement can employ Jesse Blom and Imroz, Global Youth Leadership them to find supporters and friends. We’ll also create ba- Institute sic social strategy documents for your student group or Room: Big Ten - 104 organization. When interfaith leaders work with diverse groups of in- Tim Brauhn is a Fellow with the Faiths Act Fellowship, a dividuals, we are dealing not only with differences in re- partnership between the Interfaith Youth Core and the ligion, but also with other aspects of identity. The 5 C’s of Tony Blair Faith Foundation. The Fellows are constructing Awareness - Color, Culture, Class, Character, and Context an international interfaith coalition to end malaria deaths, – guide us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the mobilizing faith communities across the globe. Tim was identities of others. the Fundraising Coordinator for The 1010 Project, a Den- ver-based humanitarian organization. Jesse Blom is the Assistant Director of Global Youth Lead- ership Institute (GYLI). Blom has worked with GYLI since 2006 as an administrator and as a coordinator for youth The Art of Building Bridges leadership institutes in Wisconsin, New Mexico, and Costa Tim DeMay Rica and has extensive experience working in the realm of experiential education in a variety of settings. Room: Evans - 102 Imroz is an intern leadership facilitator and trainer for How can our stories best connect us? In this presentation, GYLI. She comes to GYLI for a 6-month internship by spe- participants will learn to creatively tell their personal sto- cial arrangement with Washington State University. Imroz ries and listen to others’ by looking at examples of reli- became involved with interfaith leadership through Play gious art. By examining religion-themed creative writing, for Peace, an International organization in India and has participants will use poetic and narrative techniques to been involved conducting trainings and facilitating di- recreate their own stories artistically. verse populations for the past nine years. Tim DeMay is a writer and a recent graduate from North- western University. While at Northwestern, writing short Social Media and Interfaith — Facebook, story about monks, birds, and a young Roman boy led De- Twitter, and Other Tools for Getting Your May to undertake a fellowship to travel through the Dako- tas and write poems about opera houses. He plans to take Voice Heard on another project discussing how the fellowship relates Tim Brauhn, Faiths Act Fellowship to his initial assignment. Room: Lake - 203 Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other “social media” or “social networking” sites provide today’s internet p 22 Workshops: Sunday, October 25

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Muslims, Jews, Palestinians, and Israelis: Summer Intern, and a former member of IFYC’s Chicago Youth Council. He currently serves as the Bronfman Fellow New Approaches to Conflict at Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life in Wash- Transformation Encounter Programs ington, DC. Huda Abu Arqoub and Aaron Hahn-Tapper, Abraham’s Vision Interfaith Education in Seminaries: Room: Rock - 207 Training a New Generation of Moral The Co-Executive Directors of Abraham’s Vision will dis- & Spiritual Leaders cuss new approaches to encounter programs involving Rabbi Dr. Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Reconstructionist Jews, Muslims, Israelis, and Palestinians, including the ten- Rabbinical College; Rev. Dr. Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, month Vision Program, which begins by taking Palestinian Claremont School of Theology; Dr. Jennifer Peace, and Jewish university programs to the Balkans for a month- Center for Inter-Religious and Communal Leadership long experience to engage in comparative conflict analy- Education; Rev. Dr. Mark Swanson, Lutheran School of sis and transformation. Theology at Chicago Huda Abu Arqoub has a Master’s degree in Conflict Trans- formation from Eastern Mennonite University, where she Moderator: Rabbi Or Rose, Hebrew College served as a Fulbright Scholar from 2004-06. Prior to join- Room: McCormick Auditorium ing Abraham’s Vision, Arqoub worked as an educational consultant for the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Edu- How do we best train religious leaders for service in a cation. world of religious diversity? What are the key skills, experiences, and knowledge that rabbis, ministers, imams, and Aaron Hahn-Tapper is an Assistant Professor in the The- priests need for their work as interfaith bridge-builders? ology and Religious Studies Department of the University Explore these questions with leaders from institutions that of San Francisco and the founding Director of the Swig are pioneering this work at schools around the country. Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, the first academic program in the country formally linking these two Nancy Fuchs Kreimer is the Director of the Department fields. He holds a PhD in Comparative Religions from UC of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives at the Reconstructionist Santa Barbara. Rabbinical College where she is also Associate Professor of Religious Studies. She is on the board of Clergy Beyond Huda and Aaron are also Co-Executive Directors and Co- Borders, the Interfaith Center of Philadelphia and the advi- Founders of the Center for Transformative Education. sory board of the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue.

Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook is professor of practical the- Speed Faithing: Judaism ology and religious education at the Claremont School of Rebecca Oyen, Faiths Act Fellowship and Nathan Ren- Theology. She is the former academic dean and professor of Feminist Pastoral Theology and Church History at the der, Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Episcopal Divinity School. The author of numerous books Room: Arch - 206 and articles, Kujawa-Holbrook has also written on interfaith education for Congregations magazine. Rebecca Oyen graduated from Amherst College this past spring with a joint degree in Anthropology and Women’s Dr. Jennifer Peace is the managing director of the Center and Gender Studies. While at Amherst, she served as the for Inter-Religious and Communal Leadership Education. President of Amherst College Hillel and the Multifaith Dr. Peace is an adjunct faculty member at Andover-New- Council. This year, Rebecca is working for the Tony Blair ton Theological Seminary and a founding board member Faith Foundation and IFYC as a Faiths Act Fellow. of the United Religions Initiative, an international interfaith organization. She also helped found the Daughters Nathan Render, a recent graduate of Tufts University, is of Abraham, a book group model for Muslim, Jewish and the co-founder of the Tufts Pathways Interfaith Initiative. Christian women. He is an IFYC Fellows Alliance Alumnus, a former IFYC Workshops: Sunday, October 25 p 23

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Mark N. Swanson is the Harold S. Vogelaar Professor of This interactive session will focus on the role civilians Christian-Muslim Studies and Interfaith Relations at the play in conflict resolution regarding the Palestinian-Israeli Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and the Associate conflict. Using Palestinian and Israeli interviews, as well Director of its Center of Christian-Muslim Engagement for as the unique perspectives of the participants, the session Peace and Justice. Previously he taught at Luther Seminary will address how to implement productive steps towards in St. Paul, Minnesota and at the Evangelical Theological peace and understanding in our own communities. Seminary in Cairo, Egypt. Before joining Just Vision, Adam Sitte worked as a writer Rabbi Or Rose is Associate Dean of the Hebrew College and analyst for the Gallup Organization’s Center for Muslim Rabbinical School and Co-Director of the Center for Inter- Studies. While there, he wrote articles on and contributed religious & Communal Leadership Education, a joint ven- to various reports about the Muslim world. Adam has pre- ture of Hebrew College and Andover-Newton Theological viously served as an English teacher for refugees in Cairo, School. Rabbi Rose is an author and contributing editor for Egypt and worked in camps throughout the West Bank. Tikkun and a member of the advisory committee of Sh’ma. Spicing Up Dialogue: Broaching One Day, All Children: An Interfaith the Tough Issues That Really Count Conversation on Educational Inequity Joshua Stanton, Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue Josh Dickson, Zahreen Ghaznavi, Seth Lavin and Room: Northwestern A - 202A Brandon Sammut, Teach for America The most difficult topics in interfaith dialogue are often the Room: Northwestern B - 202B most important. Yet we tend to shy away from them and What would happen if young people from all faith tradi- leave interchanges feeling unsatisfied or with lingering tions worked together to solve our world’s greatest injus- concerns. This interactive session will explore ways to dia- tices? The answer to this question is the topic of this panel logue about challenging issues in order to provide a strong discussion, featuring several young adults who’ve taught basis for interfaith collaboration and problem-solving. in America’s lowest income communities with the non- Joshua Stanton is a Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Jour- profit Teach For America. Plenty of Q&A time is included. nal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ and a rabbinical student Session panelists hail from all corners of the United States at Hebrew Union College. A former IFYC fellow, Stanton is and represent a mosaic of religious traditions. What they do a founding co-Director of Lessons of a Lifetime™, a nurs- hold in common, however, is a firm belief that all children de- ing home-based project designed to improve intergenera- serve access to an excellent education – a belief that each tional relations and convey leadership skills to youth. panelist developed while serving with Teach For America.

Brandon Sammut works with the Faith Community Rela- Interfaith Living and Learning in the tions Team of Teach For America. Teach For America’s Faith Residence Halls at Northwestern Community Relations Team brings together the brightest young minds from all faith backgrounds to expand edu- University cational opportunity for under-resourced children in 35 Dr. Rev. Timothy Stevens and Jason Hanson, North- urban and rural communities. western University Voices from the Field: an Interactive Room: Wildcat A - 101A Workshop around Palestinian and Leaders live it. That sentiment permeates the halls of Northwestern’s Interfaith Living Learning Community. In Israeli Nonviolent Civilian Efforts this session, the advisors will discuss their approach to creating and sustaining this thematic residential commu- Adam Sitte, Just Vision nity and a student panel will then describe their experi- Room: Wildcat B - 101B ences in this Interfaith Living Learning Community. p 24 Workshops: Sunday, October 25

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Dr. Rev. Timothy Stevens is the primary advisor for the Jason Hanson is the Area Coordinator that oversees the Northwestern’s Interfaith Living Learning Communi- residential component of Northwestern University’s Inter- ty, which he launched during the fall of 2005. University faith Living Learning Community. Hanson serves as an ad- Chaplain at Northwestern since 1986, Reverend Stevens visor for the student government, as the supervisor of the conducts university chapel services each Sunday of the Community Assistant in NU’s Interfaith-themed residence academic year in Millar Chapel. hall and in the Office of Residential Life in the Division of Student Affairs. 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm Going Deeper Together, Through and educator and has worked with Doctors without Bor- ders, Habitat for Humanity and the United Nations. He is Questions That Matter Creative Director at the New York City-based Listen Up! Rabbi Dr. Josh Feigelson and Allison Gross, North- Youth Media Network, which supports 150 youth media western University and AskBigQuestions organizations around the globe, providing youth and their allies funding, training and institutional support. Room: Wildcat B - 101B The presenters will show how you can bring the AskBig- Tools for Dialogue: New Approaches to Questions initiative to your campus to create spaces for Interfaith Education diverse groups of people from different religious and cultural backgrounds, across ages and nationalities, to Rachel Heilbron, Three Faiths Forum engage in meaningful conversations about their common questions of ultimate concern. Room: Northwestern A - 202A The Three Faiths Forum works for greater understanding Rabbi Josh Feigelson is the Campus Rabbi & Senior Direc- tor for Educational Initiatives at Fiedler Hillel at Northwest- between faiths and cultures. Through their programs they ern University. Josh advises the Hillel Leadership Council actively challenge prejudices and build new relationships and works with students and staff to create meaningful between communities. The workshop will give you insight Jewish experiences and learning opportunities, develop- into their work in the interfaith movement and the tools to ing academic and co-curricular partnerships between engage in constructive dialogue and action. Fiedler Hillel and the university. Rachel Heilbron seeks ways of seeing the world and being active in making change happen through her career. Allison Gross is a senior in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. At the Three Faiths Forum, she oversees the interfaith education program. Their activities help young people learn about faiths, identities and diversity through dialogue and Listen Up! Building a Better World with communication. Web-Based Video Austin Haeberle, Listen Up! Connecting Faith and Earth Room: Evans - 102 Allison Fisher, Sarah Jawaid, Ryan Strom, DC Green Muslims and Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Want to learn the basics to produce and shoot powerful Light web-based videos? Take a crash course on how to shoot video, conduct interviews and tell stories about how peo- Room: WildcatA - 101A ple of all faiths are coming together, bridging differences Many faith traditions provide its followers guidance on and working towards the common purpose of building a how to connect and protect the external world, establish- more peaceful world. This is a closed session. ing a direct relationship between environmentalism and Austin Haeberle is a Peabody award-winning filmmaker faith. This panel will discuss the Jewish and Islamic per- Workshops: Sunday, October 25 p 25

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm spectives on environmental stewardship while giving real Mara Vanderslice is the founder of Common Good Strate- world examples that highlight the nexus between faith gies, which advises Democratic officials, candidates and and environmental advocacy. advocacy groups on how to connect with America’s diverse religious communities; she currently works in the Allison Fisher is the Program Director of Greater Washing- White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood ton Interfaith Power and Light, one the 29 Interfaith Power Partnerships. The former director of religious outreach for and Light campaigns across the country, mobilizing a na- the Kerry-Edwards campaign, she launched the Matthew tional religious response to global warming. She previ- 25 Network to support Democratic candidates with a reli- ously was an AmeriCorps* VISTA in New York City, where gious background. she engaged in a variety of projects. Zeenat Rahman is the Director for Strategic Partnerships Sarah Jawaid works as a Research Associate at Urban at the Interfaith Youth Core, where she oversees policy ini- Land Institute, researching national transportation and in- tiatives and international programs for the organization. frastructure policy. She is also an organizer for DC Green She frequently travels abroad to speak about the impor- Muslims, a group of eco-conscious Muslims working to un- tance of interfaith youth work in promoting civic engage- derstand the connections between the environment, reli- ment and healthy integration amongst youth. gion and holistic living.

Ryan Strom has been involved with numerous environmen- tally focused organizations both in Michigan and most re- Interfaith Leadership for International cently at the League of Conservation Voters in Washington, Religious Freedom DC. Ryan at present serves as an organizer of DC Green John Musselman, Institute for Global Engagement Muslims, a Washington DC based group, which seeks to bridge understanding between Muslims, Islam and the en- Room: Big Ten - 104 vironmental movement. This session will present an insider look at NGO work in the field of international religious freedom advocacy, why inter- From Obama’s Cairo Speech to Action: faith partnership is essential, and what strategies individu- A Discussion of Interfaith Initiatives in als and organizations can use to advance this fundamental human right. Participants will be encouraged to interact the Obama Administration and share concepts through small group discussions.

John Kelly, Corporation for National and Community John Musselman is a Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Service; Mara Vanderslice, Office of Faith-Based and Global Engagement. He supports IGE’s Muslim-Majority Neighborhood Partnerships World Engagement Program, including country programs in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province. Previous to his Moderator: Zeenat Rahman, Interfaith Youth Core work at IGE, John supported the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Room: McCormick Auditorium Project, a senior, bipartisan, multi-faith initiative to forge a new direction for U.S. relations with the Muslim world. In Cairo, President Obama stated the importance of interfaith cooperation in the form of concrete service projects. Mara will discuss the many ways that the Obama administration is implementing interfaith service programs and John will talk about the interfaith service initiatives that the Corporation is implementing through their domestic programs.

John Kelly is the Strategic Adviser from the Office of Faith- Based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the Corporation for National and Community Service. Formerly the Demo- cratic National Committee’s Catholic outreach director, Kelly also supports interfaith service in Washington, D.C., Minneapolis/St. Paul and the Bay Area. p 26 Workshops: Sunday, October 25

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm The Truth about Truth: How to Engage East. A regional coordinator for InterVarsity Christian Fel- lowship and on the Board of Scholars for the Journal of Inter- Exclusive Truth Claims in Interfaith Religious Dialogue, author Sorrentino recently published Work Religious Pluralism: What Do College Students Think? Prerna Abbi and C. Nikole Saulsberry Speed Faithing: Jainism Room: Lake - 203 Hemang Srikishan Many faith traditions have foundational beliefs that sepa- rate them from others, but this does not have to mean that Room: Northwestern B - 202B members of such faiths cannot participate in common ac- Hemang Srikishan is an active member of the Jain Society tion toward a common good. Attendees to this session will of Metropolitan Chicago. He began doing interfaith work participate in discussion and an interactive experiment to at the University of Illinois as an undergraduate student explore this balance. and continues to look for ways to spread pluralism to youth. Prerna Abbi is a recent graduate of Syracuse University, Currently Hemang is earning a master’s in Urban Educa- where she was involved with the Alpha Phi Omega co-ed tion at University of Chicago. service fraternity and SU’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity. A former IFYC fellow, Prerna currently serves as an Ame- Speed Faithing: Buddhism riCorps National Direct volunteer working on Community Relations, Faith Outreach, and Volunteer Services at Habi- Freeman Trebilcock, Interaction: Multifaith Youth tat for Humanity of Suffolk. Network C. Nikole Saulsberry is a recent graduate of Syracuse Uni- Room: Arch - 206 versity, where she was involved in the Protestant Campus Ministry and Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed service frater- Freeman Trebilcock has collaborated in numerous in- nity. A former IFYC Fellow, Saulsberry recently engaged terfaith initiatives including organising and participating in an interfaith study travel experience to Jerusalem and in the ‘Dialogue with the Dalai Lama: Multifaith Forum for will serve the AmeriCorps National Community Civilian Schools’ as well as coordinating the Buddhist community Corps beginning in October. for the Melbourne Interfaith Youth Pilgrimage. Freeman also started InterAction: Multifaith Youth Network, which engages young people in common action for the common Religious Pluralism: What Do College good. Students Think? A Study at Amherst College Paul V. Sorrentino, Amherst College and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Room: Rock - 207 How can we serve a community in a way that is respectful of different traditions and meaningful to adherents? To answer this question, we must understand what religiously involved students think about coming together with people of other faiths. The presenter will discuss his research on this topic with Amherst College students and discuss the implications for religious life work.

Paul V. Sorrentino is director of Religious Life at Amherst College and adjunct professor at Bethel Seminary of the p 28 Workshops: Monday, October 26

10:30 am - 11:30 am Inter-Action: Beyond the Usual Suspects Finding a Common Language: John Anderson, London Youth Case Studies on Campus Activism Room: Rock - 207 and Coalition Building Which type of young person benefits the most from inter- Wayne Firestone and Nathan Render, Hillel: The Foun- faith work? One who recognizes its importance and is al- dation for Jewish Campus Life ready motivated to take part, or one whose only interaction Room: Big Ten - 104 with other faiths, if it exists at all, is based on prejudice and intolerance? This participative session will introduce you As leaders in a diverse world, we often have a shared vi- to the methodologies used by London Youth to specifically sion for the future yet lack the language with which to ar- work with the second type of young person with the aim of ticulate and implement that vision together. Join us for an turning them into the first. interactive workshop to explore how we can work to find that common language and build essential relationships, John Anderson is Youth Action Manager for London Youth, through personal stories and case studies from college a vibrant network of more than 400 community organiza- campuses in America. Bring your stories! tions serving 75,000 young people and the families. Ander- son previously worked for the Sheffield Hallam Students’ Wayne L. Firestone is the President and CEO for Hillel: the Union’s Equal Opportunities Executive, where he helped Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. He has directed Hil- prevent potential backlash against Muslim and Interna- lel’s strategic planning committee and previously served tional students after London’s 2005 suicide bombings. as the director of the Israel Regional Office of the Anti- Defamation League and founded a consulting company, Talking Across Difference: Silicon Wadinet, to support Israeli start-up companies. Why Do We Serve? Nathan Render, a recent graduate of Tufts University, is the co-founder of the Tufts Pathways Interfaith Initiative. Kelli Covey and Adam Davis, Project on Civic He is an IFYC Fellows Alliance Alumnus, a former IFYC Reflection Summer Intern, and a former member of IFYC’s Chicago Youth Council. He currently serves as the Bronfman Fellow Room: Evans - 102 at Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life in Wash- This session will get you thinking deeply and talking in- ington, D.C. tensively about why you serve — and it will use a Rabin- dranath Tagore poem and a Martin Luther King, Jr. sermon I’m Your Leader? 6 Questions, to help you do so. The session will also introduce you to a practice called ‘civic reflection’ and resources that will Leadership & You help you get it going. This session is limited to 20 partici- Adam Goodman, Northwestern University Center for pants, and is also offered Sunday 1:45-2:45. Leadership is Director of Programs and Development for Kelli Covey Room: Wildcat B - 101B the Project on Civic Reflection. Before joining PCR, she was the senior development officer at the Illinois Coalition Based on extensive research by the Director of Northwest- for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Covey also has expe- ern’s Center for Leadership, this session offers a roadmap rience as a resource development director, web site and for participants to diagnose and solve their own leader- marketing strategist and writer. ship challenges through an engaging and authentic question-based model. This session includes time for partici- Adam Davis is Senior Research and Teaching Associ- pants to discuss their current leadership challenges. ate with the Project on Civic Reflection. He is the editor of Hearing the Call across Traditions and co-editor of The Dr. Adam Goodman is an award-winning educator, re- Civically Engaged Reader and Talking Service. He received searcher, and trusted advisor to leaders of companies, his PhD from the University of Chicago, his MA from Boston non-profit groups and other organizations. Currently, he College, and his BA from Kenyon College. directs Northwestern University’s Center for Leadership. Workshops: Monday, October 26 p 29

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He is also a co-founder and Partner with the NorthStone She has worked for ten years in the non-profit sector, with Group, a management consulting firm that focuses on experience ranging from teaching performance work- leadership development and decision making. shops to development for public interest law and immigrant integration agencies. She holds a BFA in screenwrit- Clergy Beyond Borders: A Model ing and Asian American Studies from NYU. for Dialogue and Conflict Resolution Speed Faithing: Christianity Imam Yahya Hendi and Rabbi Gerald Serotta, Clergy Tim Brauhn and Amy McNair, Faiths Act Fellowship Without Borders Room: Wildcat A - 101A Room: McCormick Auditorium Tim Brauhn is a fellow with the Faiths Act Fellowship, a Imam Hendi and Rabbi Serotta will present a model for in- partnership between the Interfaith Youth Core and the terfaith cooperation and conflict resolution that moves be- Tony Blair Faith Foundation. The Fellows are constructing yond dialogue in order to turn confrontation into collabora- an international interfaith coalition to end malaria deaths, tion. The panelists are leaders of a new organization, Clergy mobilizing faith communities across the globe. Tim was Beyond Borders, whose mission is to empower religious the Fundraising Coordinator for The 1010 Project, a Den- leaders to explore and utilize the resources of their diverse ver-based humanitarian organization. religious traditions in the advancement of world peace. Amy McNair graduated from Seattle Pacific University this Imam Yahya Hendi is the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown spring with a degree in Public Policy and Law. While in col- University, the first American University to hire a full-time lege, she was heavily involved in leading interfaith work in Muslim chaplain. He is the Imam of the Islamic Society of the AIDS community, as well as development work in vari- Frederick, and the Muslim Chaplain at the National Naval ous countries in Africa. She is currently working as a Faiths Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. He serves as adjunct fac- Act Fellow with the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and IFYC. ulty member at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. Rabbi Gerald Serotta is the Executive Director of Clergy Teaching Religious Diversity in Pub- Beyond Borders and served as a university chaplain and Hillel Rabbi for 28 years at The George Washington Uni- lic Schools: Why, What, When — and versity. He is a spiritual leader for Shirat HaNefesh, a Jew- Whether? ish community in Southern Maryland. He was the founder of Rabbis for Human Rights, North America. Dr. Gregory Meyjes, Kennesaw State University Room: Northwestern B - 202B Enagaging Media: Using Film to Build This interactive presentation offers all interested profes- Bridges and Effect Change sionals whether for, against, or undecided about including religious subject matter in public school curricula, a Maikiko James, Active Voice practical yet comprehensive overview of the limits, pos- Room: Northwestern A - 202A sibilities, and underlying issues — and a non-threatening platform for the exchange of views. This session, designed by the media strategists at Active Voice, will engage participants in a lively discussion of Dr. Gregory P. Meyjes is Chair of the Department of Inclu- how film and other media tools can support and heighten sive Education at Kennesaw State University in the Atlanta efforts for change, dialogue and bridge-building. Featur- region, and CEO of Solidaris Intercultural Services LLC, an ing short film clips, simulated dialogue and a presentation intercultural consulting and recruitment firm. He is an ap- of best practices, participants will leave the session with plied sociolinguist specialized in attitudes, policies, and good ideas of how to jumpstart their community efforts. practices involving cultural minority groups, with a rights- based approach to social justice. Maikiko James is Program Coordinator at Active Voice, focusing on cultural, immigration, and faith-based issues. p 30 Workshops:Title Here Monday, October 26

10:30 am - 11:30 am Social Innovation as Collaboration: led by IFYC, the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) and the Chicago Community Trust to help diverse reli- Leveraging the Best of What’s Around gious and cultural communities build relationships. Nillofur Jasani and Jordan Robinson, One Nation and Maureen Fife, Habitat for Humanity Interfaith Cooperation on Campus: Room: Arch - 206 Six Hallmarks Many associate social innovation with the creation of new Jenan Mohajir, Interfaith Youth Core and Noah Silver- organizations rather than the creative and innovative align- man, New York University ment of existing organizations, networks and ideas. Staff from One Nation, a national philanthropic initiative, and Room: Lake - 203 Habitat for Humanity, will discuss how they are collabo- College campuses have been an engine of social change rating to more effectively leverage their existing strengths, in countries around the globe. In this workshop, learn resources and ideas to best address our most pressing so- about IFYC’s “campus hallmarks” which can help you mea- cial issues. sure when a college or university campus has successfully Nillofur Jasani is a program officer at One Nation and one engaged religious identity and strategize ways for build- of the lead organizers of One Nation and Habitat for Hu- ing sustainable religious pluralism on campus. manity’s joint interfaith home build. She is a native of India, Jenan Mohajir is a Program Associate in IFYC’s Outreach who has practiced both Islam and Christianity. She served Education & Training department. As a senior member of His Highness the Aga Khan as a member of the National the OET team, she travels to college campuses, community Council of the Ismaili Muslim community. organizations and conferences throughout the world offer- Maureen Fife is CEO of Habitat for Humanity’s Tacoma/ ing skills-based trainings on religious. Jenan is a commit- Pierce County affiliate and a lead organizer of One Na- ted Muslim, and received her B.S. from DePaul University tion and Habitat for Humanity’s joint interfaith home build. in Elementary Education and Islamic Studies. Before her leadership at Habitat for Humanity, she was Noah Silverman has been a leading practitioner and the Deputy Director of Associated Ministries of Tacoma/ trainer in the interfaith movement for over ten years, dur- Pierce County. ing which time he has worked for several national and in- Jordan Robinson is a Media Associate at One Nation, a ternational interfaith organizations in Chicago, New York, national philanthropic initiative dedicated to promoting and Jerusalem. Noah is the author of the Interfaith Leader’s inclusion and pluralism in America. One Nation is launch- Toolkit and is currently a graduate student studying reli- ing a broad-based civic engagement initiative in Chicago gion at New York University. 11:45 am - 12:45 pm Minga’s Let’s Get Real Campaign School in Massachusetts. He joined Minga, a youth-run nonprofit fighting the child sex trade, when he was 14 Ben Chesler, Minga years old. He registered Minga as a nonprofit and successfully filed for 501(c)3 tax-exempt status for Minga when he Room: Chicago - 163 was 15….without the help of adults. Minga, a non-profit founded by high-school freshmen three years ago, mobilizes students to take action against child prostitution and child sex trafficking. Two million kids are Preparing Students for a Religiously exploited in the child sex trade every year, so Minga is Diverse Global Society mobilizing two million kids to speak out against this ex- Maha ElGenaidi, and Cyndee Goldstien, Islamic Net- ploitation. Find out how you can be part of the solution. works Group Ben Chesler is a 17-year-old senior at Newton South High Room: Lake - 203 Workshops: Monday, October 26 p 31

11:45 am - 12:45 pm The Interfaith Speakers Bureau was introduced in 2008 to Speed Faithing: Islam promote religious literacy and mutual respect. In addition to the Islamic Speakers Bureau, ING offers onsite educa- Razi Hashmi, CAIR Oklahoma tional panels where students and adults alike can learn Room: Wildcat A - 101A about five major world religions through guest panelists. Come hear about the program’s impact and what it takes Razi Hashmi, is the Executive Director of the Council on to develop a regional Interfaith Speakers Bureau. American-Islamic Relations in Oklahoma. Since 2007, he has developed relations with the media, interfaith leaders, Maha ElGenaidi is President & Chief Executive of Islamic governmental officials, educators, law enforcement, and Networks Group. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, ING civic leaders to further the mission of CAIR. Hashmi gradu- is a national educational outreach organization with affili- ated from Dickinson College in 2006 with a BA in Interna- ates and partners throughout the United States. Maha has tional Studies. spoken to hundreds of schools, churches, synagogues, police departments, corporations and other public agencies. From Crisis to Opportunity: Conflict Cyndee Goldstein, is Program Administrator for Islamic Networks Group. Cyndee has spent more than 10 years Resolution & Mediation on Campus in the high-tech industry. Now she runs the Interfaith and Samuel Klein, The Coexistence Trust Islamic Speakers Bureaus for ING. Cyndee received her B.A. from San Francisco State University in Organizational Room: Northwestern B - 202B Communications. She is a student of Chinese martial arts In this workshop, students will gain a broad picture of some and owns a vegan bakery. key issues and challenges facing those involved in conflict resolution work on university campuses from a variety of Creating Your Own Movement theoretical perspectives. Through role-play and discus- Leadership Toolkit sion, we will identify constructive responses to conflict within a campus context as well as practical techniques to Adria Goodson and Caitlin Wagner, Hunt Alternatives enhance leadership skills in this area. Fund Samuel Klein is the Executive Director of The Coexistence Room: Big Ten - 104 Trust and Community Director of The Saatchi Synagogue. Samuel holds degrees in Theology and Religious Studies What is your highest contribution to the interfaith youth (Cambridge University) Psychotherapy & Counselling movement? Based on their work with movement leaders, or Psychology (Regents College London) and is currently “Prime Movers,” like Eboo Patel, Daisy Khan, and Jim Wallis, studying Conflict Resolution & Mediation (MSc) at Birk- the presenters will create a dynamic session in which you beck College, London. will learn and practice skills today’s top national leaders are using to bolster their movements. Vocalo.org/89.5 FM Make-Your-Own- Dr. Adria D. Goodson is the director of domestic programs for Hunt Alternatives Fund. She is responsible for the Radio Workshop — Part 1 Prime Movers: Cultivating Social Capital program. Over Sarah Lu and Eric Roldan, Vocalo.org the course of her career, she has worked with organizations to help them focus their funding efforts on issues re- Room: Evans - 102 lated to social justice. Producers will teach participants how to record, edit and Caitlin Wagner holds a BA from Fairfield University in share their own audio pieces for possible broadcast over Communication and Marketing. Upon graduation she pur- the airwaves on 89.5 FM and online at Vocalo.org. Required sued a career in the non-profit sector and began working stuff: a laptop with the free open-source program Audacity as Senior Administrative Assistant to Ambassador Swanee installed (downloads for Macs or PCs available at audac- Hunt and travelled to Liberia to assist in civil society train- ity.sourceforge.net), headphones, stories to tell. This is a ings. In August 2008, she joined Hunt Alternatives Fund as closed session. the a program assistant. p 32 Workshops:Title Here Monday, October 26

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Sarah Lu is a Chicago-based audio producer. She makes Dr. Ray is an Oklahoma native and citizen of the Cherokee radio and teaches other people how to make radio for Vo- Nation. He received his Ph.D. in The Study of Religion from calo.org/89.5 FM. Vocalo aims to make public media truly the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. public by giving everyone access to the airwaves, and Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of IFYC, is seeking out voices that are traditionally underrepresented a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council of the in mainstream media. White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Part- A Chicago native, Erik Roldan co-founded and co-hosted nerships. Eboo holds a doctorate in the sociology of reli- WLUW 88.7 FM’s Think Pink Radio, a weekly program that gion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rho- focused on music made by the GLBT community and has des scholarship, and is author of Acts of Faith. kept the TPR name as a queer arts and politics blog at www.thinkpinkradio.com. Erik works at Vocalo.org: vocalo. Sacred Song: A Model for Starting org/explore/users/Erik Meaningful Interfaith Worship Interfaith Work and Higher Education Whittney Barth, Annum Gulamali, Aaron Meyer and C. Nikole Saulsberry, Chautauqua Institution — Abra- Rev. Scotty McLennan, J.D., Stanford University; Dr. Bar- hamic Program for Young Adults bara McGraw, J.D., St. Mary’s College of California; Dr. Alan Ray, Elmhurst College Room: Arch - 206 Moderator, Dr. Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core Interfaith worship services can be a long-term goal towards which congregations aspire, providing a venue for shared Room: McCormick Auditorium practice within the sacred spaces of our religious tradi- Campuses have been on the vanguard of making many tions. Coordinators from the Chautauqua Institution’s Abra- social movements mainstream. They’ve also been a place hamic Program for Young Adults will present a model for where diversity — racial, ethnic, gender — has been taken meaningful interfaith worship in a Christian environment. seriously. What would it look like for campuses to take re- Whittney Barth is a second-year Master of Divinity candi- ligious diversity seriously and pave the way for the inter- date at Harvard Divinity School and member of the Evan- faith movement? Join leaders from diverse schools around gelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). She is a for- the country for a conversation facilitated by IFYC’s Eboo mer Christian Coordinator of the Chautauqua Institution’s Patel. Abrahamic Program for Young Adults and a former IFYC Scotty McLennan has been the Dean for Religious Life at Development Intern. Stanford since 2001. He was the University Chaplain at Annum Gulamali was born in Miami, Florida, and raised Tufts University from 1984-2000. Scotty is a graduate of as a Shia Ismaili Muslim. She was actively involved as a Yale (B.A, 1970) and the Harvard Divinity and Law Schools student in her congregation’s Religious Education center. (M.Div., J.D., 1975). He is now an ordained minister and Annum firmly believes that understanding another’s faith attorney. is quintessential to building better relations, and as such Dr. Barbara A. McGraw, J.D., is Director of the Center for she is pursuing a degree in International Relations at Bos- Engaged Religious Pluralism, Professor of Social Ethics, ton University Law, and Public Life, and Chair of the Interfaith Initiatives Aaron Meyer is a fourth-year rabbinical student at the He- Working Group at Saint Mary’s College of California. She brew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion in Cin- is author of Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground: Pub- cinnati, Ohio. His upbringing as the son of an interfaith lic Religion and Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America couple instilled in him the value of interfaith relationships (2003). at an early age, as did leading interfaith services in San- Dr. S. Alan Ray is the thirteenth president of Elmhurst Col- dusky, Ohio and participating in the Army’s Chaplain Can- lege and began his presidency on July 1, 2008. As President didate Program. and Professor of Religion and Society, he holds joint appoint- C. Nikole Saulsberry is a recent graduate of Syracuse Uni- ments in the departments of political science and religion. versity where she received a B.S. in Communications and Workshops: Monday, October 26 p 33

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Rhetorical Studies with minors in Religion and Strategic of Theology at Chicago Theological Seminary and was its Management. Starting in October, Nikole will be serving president between 1998 and 2008. An ordained minister of the western part of her country with the AmeriCorps Na- the United Church of Christ since 1974, she is the author or tional Community Civilian Corps. editor of 13 books and has been a translator for two different translations of the Bible. Speed Faithing: Hinduism Katherine Schofield is a third-year student at Chicago Theological Seminary. She has been actively involved with Rahul Subramaniam, Princeton University IFYC, organizing a Day of Interfaith Youth Service in April Room: Northwestern A - 202A ’09 and focusing much of her studies on interfaith dialogue and action in the world. Rahul Subramaniam is a junior at Princeton University. He studies politics with an emphasis in global development. From a very young age, Rahul attended classes with What’s Fair Trade Got to Do With It? Chinmaya Mission, a worldwide Hindu organization dedi- Connecting Interfaith Leadership cated to fostering cultural and religious values. At Princ- eton, Rahul is a member of the Religious Life Council and to a More Just Economy an assistant Tai Chi instructor. Jenais Zarlin, Thanksgiving Coffee Room: Wildcat B - 101B Bringing Youth Into the Interfaith Just Fair trade seeks to transform historically exploitative re- Peacemaking Paradigm lationships between producers and consumers and has Dr. Susan Brooks-Thistlethwaite and Katherine Scho- sparked a movement inspired by a vision of a new global field, Interfaith Just Peacemaking economy built on values of social justice. Join us for a discussion of a unique interfaith coffee cooperative in Uganda Room: Rock - 207 that brings together Jewish, Christian, and Muslim farmers, The Just Peacemaking paradigm is a list of 10 practices that and to talk about how we, as people of faith, can put our have been successful in developing peace globally. In this shared values into action to promote a more just economy. session participants will be given some background infor- Jenais Zarlin is the Mirembe Kawomera Project Director at mation and will then engage in interfaith dialogue focused Thanksgiving Coffee Company. Her background in social on the 10 practices and how they are encouraged by our justice legal work and commercial food production give various faith traditions. her a unique perspective on fair trade in the global food Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite is a Senior Fellow market. Jenais holds a BA in American Studies from Stan- at the Center for American Progress. She is also Professor ford University. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

The Role of High School Students as ebrations. Experience Interfaith Action’s youth empowerment model in action as their teen leaders inspire you to Leaders in the Interfaith Movement start a high school program or expand and improve upon Aaron Birnbaum, Alina Cheema, Aayushi Mehta, Ali an existing one. Pirello, Lauren Warshaw, Interfaith Action Aaron, Ali, Alina, Aayushi and Lauren are juniors and Room: Wildcat A - 101A seniors at Sharon High School and members of Interfaith Action’s Youth Leadership Program. They have served as High school students facilitate this interactive workshop, facilitators, co-chairs and interns for the program, helping sharing their successes in leading interfaith dialogues, to host community events, run dialogue sessions and pres- running conferences, and planning major community cel- ent at conferences like this one. They have been trained in p 34 Workshops:Title Here Monday, October 26

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anti-bias work, facilitation skills, dialogue skills and proj- Philadelphia. She serves on her denomination’s Commit- ect management. tee for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations and is one of two representatives of the United Church of Christ on the Talking Across Difference: National Council of Churches (USA) Interfaith Relations Commission. Why Do We Serve? Marjorie Scharf is Project Director of Walking the Walk: Val- Kelli Covey and Adam Davis, Project on Civic ues in Action. Marjorie joined the staff of the Interfaith Cen- Reflection ter in the spring of 2005 to create this Interfaith Youth Ser- vice-Learning Initiative. She earned her Master’s degree in Room: Evans - 102 Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley This session will get you thinking deeply and talking in- and her undergraduate degree from Penn State University. tensively about why you serve — and it will use a Rabin- dranath Tagore poem and a Martin Luther King, Jr. sermon Humanism, Atheism and Agnosticism: to help you do so. The session will also introduce you to a practice called ‘civic reflection’ and resources that will Non-Religious Communities help you get it going. This is a closed session. and Interfaith Work Kelli Covey is Director of Programs and Development for Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplaincy, Harvard the Project on Civic Reflection. Before joining PCR, she University was the senior development officer at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Covey also has expe- Room: Lake - 203 rience as a resource development director, web site and Over 1 in 5 Americans aged 18-25 are non-religious. And marketing strategist and writer. many of the millions of Humanists, atheists, and agnostics Adam Davis is Senior Research and Teaching Associ- strongly support the concept of interfaith cooperation. ate with the Project on Civic Reflection. He is the editor Epstein, author of the new book Good Without God, will of Hearing the Call across Traditions and co-editor of The introduce the richly diverse traditions of Humanism and Civically Engaged Reader and Talking Service. He received atheism, then lead a discussion on how Humanists and the his PhD from the University of Chicago, his MA from Boston religious can find common ground rather than just grounds College, and his BA from Kenyon College. for endless debate. Greg M. Epstein serves as the Humanist Chaplain at Har- “Walking the Walk”: A Model to Play vard University. In 2005 he received ordination as a Hu- With manist Rabbi from the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, where he studied in Jerusalem and Reverend Nicole Diroff and Margie Scharf, Interfaith Michigan for five years. In late fall 2009 he will publish his Center of Greater Philadelphia first book, Good Without God: What a Billion Non-Religious People Do Believe, for William Morrow, an imprint of Harp- Room: Arch - 206 erCollins Publishers. Experience core components of Walking the Walk, a year- long model for interfaith service-learning that has been “The Other Peace Process”: developed and field-tested for 4 years by the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia. Presenters will engage The Role of Interreligious Dialogue you in replicable activities, provide concrete tools and in Israel and the Middle East — techniques that they have found successful, and share stories written by teen participants. Featured in NY Times, New Models for Dialogue and Action 11/11/08. Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish, Interreligious Coordinating Nicole Diroff is an ordained pastor in the United Church of Council in Israel Christ and an employee of the Interfaith Center of Greater Room: Wildcat B - 101B Workshops: Monday, October 26 p 35

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The presenter will talk about “The Other Peace Process”: demic program in the country formally linking these two The Role of Interreligious Dialogue in Israel and the Middle fields. He holds a PhD in Comparative Religions from UC East — implications for interreligious dialogue and action Santa Barbara. in the U.S. and other places. He will also engage partici- Huda and Aaron are also Co-Executive Directors and Co- pants in a discussion of models for successful interreli- Founders of the Center for Transformative Education. gious dialogue in the service of peace and coexistence. Julie Hooks Davis is Co-Executive Director of the Institute Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Is- for Training and Development in Amherst, Massachusetts. rael since 1992, Ron Kronish is a noted rabbi, educator, She serves as Director for the SUN-Youth Project and many author, lecturer and speaker. He has served as Director other US Department of State-funded grants. She received of the Israel Office of the American Jewish Committee, Co- her MA from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Ju- Director for the Melitz Centers for Jewish Zionist Education, lie has followed the issues generated by Muslim immigra- and lecturer at Tel Aviv University and The Hebrew Univer- tion in the Netherlands since she lived there in 2003-4. sity of Jerusalem. Julie Kanak is the Executive Director of Hands of Peace. She received her B.A. from Saint Mary’s College, her Mas- Models for Interfaith Encounter and ter’s of Liberal Studies from Lake Forest College, and holds Exchange Programs a Certificate in Mediation from Saint Xavier College. She has worked for a number of different non-profit organiza- Meg Chuckran, International Partners in Mission; tions, including a hospice and several social service agen- Huda Abu Arqoub and Aaron Hahn Tapper, Abra- cies, and has worked in the field of Restorative Justice. ham’s Vision; Julie Hooks Davis, Institute for Training and Development; Julie Kanak, Hands of Peace Zeenat Rahman is the Director for Strategic Partnerships at the Interfaith Youth Core, where she oversees policy ini- Moderator: Zeenat Rahman, Interfaith Youth Core tiatives and international programs for the organization. Room: Northwestern A - 202A She frequently travels abroad to speak about the importance of interfaith youth work in promoting civic engage- This session will highlight different models of internation- ment and healthy integration amongst youth. al interfaith encounter and exchange programs. Panelists will discuss learnings from the field, with particular atten- tion to similarities and differences in engagement models. Next Steps: Turning a Passion for The discussion will also focus on identifying best practices Interfaith into the Career of a Lifetime for sustainability. Rev. Alexander Levering Kern, Cooperative Metro- Meg Chuckran has worked for IPM (International Partners politan Ministries and Brandeis University; Rabbi Or in Mission) since July 2007, with the Immersion Experience Rose, Hebrew College; Noam Shore, Idealogue, Inc.; Program, both internationally and from IPM’s Cleveland of- Naazish YarKhan fice, and currently serves as IPM’s Publications & Research Fellow. Meg graduated from Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) Moderator: Joshua Stanton, Journal of Inter-Religious with a B.A. in Spanish in May 2007. Dialogue Huda Abu Arqoub has a Master’s degree in Conflict Trans- Room: McCormick Auditorium formation from Eastern Mennonite University, where she You have been engaged in meaningful interfaith program- served as a Fulbright Scholar from 2004-06. Prior to joining ming and you want to pursue a career in the field. What Abraham’s Vision, Arqoub worked as an educational con- are the options? Where might you put your interfaith lead- sultant for the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Education. ership skills to work as a professional? Join our diverse Aaron Hahn-Tapper is an Assistant Professor in the The- group of panelists for insight into the growth and develop- ology and Religious Studies Department of the University ment of the field of interfaith leadership. of San Francisco and the founding Director of the Swig Alexander Levering Kern is Executive Director of Coop- Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, the first aca- erative Metropolitan Ministries, Boston’s oldest interfaith p 36 Workshops:Title Here Monday, October 26

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social justice network and home to the Interfaith Youth Cricket White is the National Director of Training and Initiative. Alex also works as a Chaplain at Brandeis and Program Development for Initiatives of Change, a diverse, Director of the Brandeis University Interfaith Leadership global network committed to building trust across the Development Fellows Program. A Quaker educator, poet, world’s divides. She designs dialogue curricula, training and writer, he is editor of Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing for facilitators and has led trainings in South Africa, the UK, from Rising Generations. Switzerland, India and cities across the US.

Noam Shore founded Idealogue, Inc. to empower people Anjum Ashraf Ali was born in the United States and is and organizations to solve today’s challenges through on- of Pakistani heritage and spent her childhood in Riyadh, line dialogue and collaboration, and brings together ex- Saudi Arabia. She has a BA in International Relations and tensive business experience and a passion for utilizing French Cultural Studies at Wellesley College and an MA technology to address social challenges. Noam has a BA in Islamic Studies, concentrating on Islamic Law and the from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Babson Col- rights of women and children. lege and is a trained mediator. Rabbi Or Rose is Associate Dean of the Hebrew College Leadership Beyond Boundaries: Rabbinical School and Co-Director of the Center for Inter- A Transformative Journey religious & Communal Leadership Education (CIRCLE), a joint venture of Hebrew College and Andover-Newton TZiPi Radonsky and Joel Wright, Center for Creative Theological School. Rabbi Rose is an author and contrib- Leadership uting editor for Tikkun and a member of the advisory committee of Sh’ma. Room: Rock - 207 Who we are on the inside and who we are on the outside Naazish YarKhan, a writer, editor, and NPR commentator, is an expert in interracial and interfaith initiatives. Found- is often at odds with how we lead in the world. How do we er of Refugee Assistance Programs, recipient of the MWA live in alignment the change we wish to see? This session Inspiring Woman Award, she is on the Advisory Board of will help participants will explore what the world is calling Poetry Pals. Most recently, she was on “Speaking of Faith” them to do. and PBS’s “Chicago Tonight”. For the past 3 years, Joel Wright has worked with the Cen- ter for Creative Leadership on projects aimed at “democ- Joshua Stanton is a Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Jour- nal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ and a rabbinical student ratizing” leadership development by making leadership at Hebrew Union College. A former IFYC fellow, Stanton is affordable and accessible for all (www.leadbeyon.org). As a founding co-Director of Lessons of a Lifetime™, a nurs- part of this initiative Joel has conducted training for young ing home-based project designed to improve intergenera- people from all over the world. tional relations and convey leadership skills to youth. TZiPi Radonsky has been the feedback coach at the Center for Creative Leadership for eighteen years. TZiPi Honest Conversation: An Essential received a Master of Health Science in Occupational Ther- apy - University of Florida, a doctorate in Counselor Edu- Leadership Tool for Building Trust cation - University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and in Anjum Ali and Cricket White, Initiatives of Change 2005 she became an ordained rabbi. Room: Chicago - 103 The presenters will begin with an overview of the concepts of trust and honest conversation. Participants will engage in activities that include journaling, interactive questioning and listening. This session explores the concept of intentional transparency as a way to model leadership and trustwor- thiness while fostering dialogue and connections between faith groups through an experiential learning mode. Workshops: Monday, October 26 p 37

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Storytelling researching and campaigning for global issues. Karem was given the status of honorary imam of a village mosque David Fraccaro, Interfaith Youth Core and Noah Sil- while living in Ghana. verman, New York University Hilary Keachie is a 22 year old Christian from Toronto, Room: Big Ten - 104 Canada. Hilary recently graduated from U of T’s Teacher’s College and is particularly interested in the issues sur- A core part of IFYC’s methodology, storytelling is a neces- rounding access to education. In 2002, Hilary volunteered sary component of building religious pluralism in commu- in a peace building and reconciliation interfaith school in nities. This workshop explores the importance of stories to Hyderabad, India. human communication in general and religious pluralism in particular. Participants will begin to craft their stories Katie Myers, a Christian, grew up in Europe, Africa, and of interfaith cooperation, and also explore the relationship North America. She calls St. Louis “home” and is working between stories and identify formation. in Portland. Katie hopes to build God’s kingdom on Earth by living justly and showing mercy and is excited to learn David Fracarro is the new Trainer on Issues of Immigra- what motivates others to fight global poverty. tion at the IFYC. He previously coordinated New York City’s Sojourners Visitation Program, which visits immi- Ushna Mughal is a 22 year old Pakistani Catholic from grants and asylum seekers in detention. Additionally, Da- Bradford who lives in Blackburn, England. Ushna set up vid has worked with the National Council of Churches-USA UK’s first regional interfaith youth forum while she doing and World Council of Churches in young adult ecumenical her BSc Psychology degree at Leeds Met. She has been formation. involved in other interfaith programs such as Faith Matters and Project Safe Space. Noah Silverman has been a leading practitioner and trainer in the interfaith movement for over ten years, dur- Danny Richmond, 23, has worked and volunteered on 5 ing which time he has worked for several national and in- different continents. He has spoken to over 15, 000 people ternational interfaith organizations in Chicago, New York, about social activism and global citizenship. Danny has and Jerusalem. Noah is the author of the Interfaith Leader’s also served as National Program Director of Canadian Toolkit and is currently a graduate student studying reli- Young Judaea (CYJ). Danny is Jewish and lives in Toronto. gion at New York University. Erin Toolis is a 23-year-old Buddhist from Ohio. She graduated from Denison University with a B.S. in psychology Local Action for Global Change: and worked at an art center for homeless youth in Seattle Mobilizing Interfaith Action for the last year. She now works in Portland where she is excited to spread the light and love of interfaith action. Millennium Development Goals Karem Issa, Hilary Keachie, Katie Myers, Ushna Mu- ghal, Danny Richmond and Erin Toolis, Faiths Act Fel- lowship Room: Northwestern B - 202B Six young social entrepreneurs will discuss strategies to connect local communities to global issues through interfaith action. Learn what faith communities are doing to eradicate deaths due to malaria and work toward other MDGs, and find out how you can get your community involved in the Faiths Act Campaign.

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10:15 am - 11:15 am Wrestling with the Elephant: with religious communities in local, national, and international settings for the past 10 years. Megan received her Crafting Constructive Conversations Master’s in Public Health from the University of Michigan on the Israeli Palestinian Conflict and a B.S. in Zoology from Oregon State University. Malka Haya Fenyvesi and Aziza Hasan, NewGround: A Sara Reef is a Project Manager at Intersections focusing on Muslim Jewish Partnership for Change, a joint venture intercultural dialogue and action. For the past 5 years, Sara of Progressive Jewish Alliance and The Muslim Public worked in strategic planning and international affairs. She Affairs Council earned her Master of Arts degree from the City University of New York in August 2009. She speaks varying levels of Room: Big Ten - 104 French, Hebrew and Italian. This presentation will share the experience of working with Muslims and Jews in Los Angeles and wrestling with Multifaith Intentional Living Communities one of the most contentious issues of our time - the Israeli Palestinian Conflict. It will offer innovative ways to wrestle Meredith Jackson and Karamjit Dhaliwal, Cal Aggie with the elephant in the spirit of building authentic rela- Christian Association, University of California, Davis tionships and sparking transformational dialogue. Room: Northwestern A - 202A Malka Haya Fenyvesi is the Co-Director and Director of This seminar will examine intentional multifaith communi- Interfaith Programming at NewGround. She has a M.S. in ties on college and university campuses. Drawing from Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason the experience of the Multifaith Living Community at UC University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolu- Davis, the presenters will explain models of community tion (ICAR) and is a trained mediator and facilitator. Prior living, the vision and journey of opening a community, and to working for PJA, she worked at Search for Common how such communities have an impact in the world. Ground in Washington, DC. Meredith Jackson is the Community Coordinator at the Aziza Hasan is the Co-Director of NewGround: A Muslim Cal Aggie Christian Association, home of the Multifaith Jewish Partnership for Change, she also is the Director of Living Community in Davis, CA. Meredith was part of the Government Relations for the Muslim Public Affairs Coun- visioning process for the community as an undergraduate. cil. She has worked with religious and government lead- She oversees the day-to-day running of the community ership in Southern California in the areas of social justice, and works with students and staff on long range visioning, community education, and youth engagement. planning, and programming.

Karamjit Dhaliwal is a member of the Student Leadership Empowering Young Leaders with Tools Team at the Cal Aggie Christian Association, home of the to Combat Islamaphobia Multifaith Living Community in Davis, CA. A third-year student in Biological Sciences, Dhaliwal has lived in the Megan Hoelle and Sara Reef, Intersections Interna- MLC for over a year. On staff, she helps organize multifaith tional programs, publicity, and outreach. Room: Northwestern B - 202B This session will train religious leaders and youth to Global Connections: Developing Partner- use new, emerging technologies to combat negative ships to Promote Interfaith Cooperation stereotypes about Muslims. This workshop will feature ChangeTheStory.net, a well-known tool that works to build Imane Karich, Belgian Association of Muslim Profession- bridges of understanding between different faith tradi- als; Erwan Floch, Initiatives of Change — France; Atefeh tions. Participants will meet their neighbors, change the Sadeghi, Middle East Youth Network Cooperation Circle story, and change the world. of United Religions Initiative; Rohanjit Chaudhry, Youth Parliament Foundation, India Megan Hoelle works as Director of Communication and Program Development for Intersections. She has worked Moderator: Hind Makki, Interfaith Youth Core. p 40 Workshops: Tuesday, October 27

10:15 am - 11:15 am Room: McCormick Auditorium The Need for Voices of Faith in This panel brings together advocates from Belgium, France, Immigration Reform India and Iran to discuss pluralism in their societies and their experiences developing multi-sector partnerships to Geri Mannion, Carnegie Corporation of New York build social cohesion. They will explore the impact that lo- Room: Lake - 203 cal, regional and international networks have on the global interfaith movement at large. Come for a discussion on how young people of faith can become more engaged in issues of immigration and immi- Imane Karich is founder of the ABPM (Belgian Association grant integration. We’ll discuss a need for comprehensive of Muslim Professionals), a Muslim networking platform immigration reform, and the need for faith voices in efforts aiming at inspiring the ethics of success among Muslim to help the undocumented come out of the shadows and professionals in Belgium. She has published two books on become American citizens. Islamic Finance, and currently manages the Business Area Financial Markets at FINALYSE, a Brussels-based consul- Geri Mannion is director of Carnegie Corporation’s U.S. tancy company. Democracy Program. Mannion has also co-chaired the Funders’ Committee for Citizen Participation, an affin- Erwan Floch is Executive Director of Initiatives of Change ity group of funders that encourages foundations to fund (IofC) and project manager of the French intercultural voter registration, voting rights, civic education and cam- program “Initiative Dialogue.” The aim of this program, paign finance reform. which gathers mainly Christians and Muslims, is to bring together people who are not used to meeting each other and work on commonalities to build trust before address- Dialogue and Respectful Contestation ing bigger issues. Over Truth: Building Trust Between Atefeh Sadeghi is a pharmacist who got involved in inter- Religious Opponents faith and intercultural activities in late 2003 working as an executive of international affairs for Institute for Interreli- Charles Randall Paul, Ph.D., Foundation for Interreli- gious Dialogue, an NGO in Iran. To pursue her ambitions gious Diplomacy for a peaceful and diverse world, Atefeh is now doing her Room: Wildcat A - 101A MA in Peace studies and International Conflict Transfor- mation at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). Can we trust someone who is wrong about the ultimate truth? The presenter will show how to face challenges to Rohanjit Chaudhry represents the Youth Parliament Foun- religious beliefs with good will. By sharing our stories of dation (YP), a non-profit organization led and run by young how we came to our beliefs, we learn to build trust based leaders in New Delhi, India. Rohanjit manages the Youth on our openness and integrity without agreeing on ulti- Parliament’s Blending Spectrum initiative which works mate truth. with street and slum children with different religious un- derstandings on issues of education, healthcare, and life Charles Randall Paul is the founder and president of the skills development. Foundation for Intercultural Diplomacy (NY and UT, USA) that aims to decrease ill will and build trust between peo- Hind Makki is a Program Associate in IFYC’s Outreach ple who advocate different religious and ideological be- Education and Training department. She travels to college liefs and practices. His foundation is developing a network campuses, congregations and conferences in the United of interreligious diplomats to engage in full-bodied coop- States and Western Europe, offering trainings on religious erative and contestational intercultural diplomacy. pluralism, interfaith service-learning and meaningful interfaith dialogues. Hind received her BA in International Relations from Brown University. Workshops: Tuesday, October 27 p 41

10:15 am - 11:15 am Putting High School Students in the Hyphenated Religious Identity Driver’s Seat: Creating a Teen-Led in America Interfaith Program Professor Karla Suomala, Luther College Janet Penn, Interfaith Action Room: Rock - 207 Room: Arch - 206 We are different than our grandparents’ generation in that we often describe ourselves in a hyphenated way —“My The presenter will share the core principles, methodology, mom is Jewish, and my dad is Christian; I’ve been raised and training of Interfaith Action’s Youth Leadership Pro- in both traditions.” What do we bring, with these rich and gram, to complement the teen-run interactive workshop. varied biographies, to interfaith action and dialogue? Learn how high school-aged teens in your community can lead interfaith dialogue and vision, plan, and implement Karla Suomala is a professor of religion at Luther College, community celebrations and programs that foster under- where she teaches courses in sacred scriptures and Jew- standing and mutual respect. ish Studies. Suomala has worked with a number of groups in Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations. Janet Penn is the Founder and Executive Director of Inter- She recently published an article entitled “Healing the faith Action (IFA) in Sharon, MA and the creator of IFA’s World and Mending the Soul” in a text for Christian clergy Youth Leadership Program and the Sharon Pluralism Net- and lay leaders. work. She has worked to build bridges of understanding among different religious and ethnic groups for over a decade and has developed local, national, and international Listen UP! Follow-up partnerships. Erin Williams and Chris Stedman, Interfaith Youth Core Engaging Evangelical Christians Room: Evans - 102 in Interfaith Work Time to share your film with the world! In this follow up Nick Price, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Univer- session, you’ll work with IFYC to upload the videos you sity of Illinois at Chicago created during the Conference to various online forums Room: Wildcat B - 101B to help shape the public narrative of religion from one of conflict to one of common service! This is a closed session. Maybe you are an interfaith organizer concerned about inviting evangelicals to the table. Or perhaps you are an Chris Stedman is an intern at IFYC, where he focuses on evangelical Christian encountering resistance from your the conference, media, and outreach, education and train- community as you try to engage in interfaith work. This ing. He is currently working on a Master of Arts in Religion session is designed to help equip interfaith organizers thesis on storytelling at Meadville Lombard Theological from a variety of backgrounds engage the evangelical School. Chris worked as a journalist and community orga- community in interfaith work. nizer before moving to Chicago. At IFYC, is involved in civic programming Nick Price is a staff worker for InterVarsity Christian Fel- Erin Williams lowship/USA, an interdenominational evangelical organi- and media. She’s spoken about religion, politics, and me- zation that develops young Christian leaders on college dia for the McCormick Freedom Museum, the Inner-City campuses around the country. He served as co-chair of a Muslim Action Network, and University of Chicago. She’s student-led interfaith organization. He has written for in- also speaking about media at the Parliament of the World’s terfaith periodicals like CrossCurrents and Interreligious Religions in Melbourne. Erin’s short documentary, “Ex- Insight magazines. change,” appeared on CNN. p 42 Workshops: Tuesday, October 27

11:45 am - 12:45 pm Embracing Pluralism, Respecting ing experience as an intern at CHANGE (Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment). Heritage: Making Interfaith “Work” at a Christian Institution “A Different Conversation:” A Documen- Katie Basham and Courtney Brooks, Berea College tary Film on Religious Pluralism Room: Lake - 203 Presenter: Jonathan Cross and Lindsay Emery, Duke Working within the context of a Christian institution pres- University ents unique challenges and opportunities for interfaith Room: Wildcat A - 101A programming. After sharing the specific context of Berea College and its interfaith initiatives, the presenters will In May 2008, a religiously diverse group of Duke University share strategies for creating successful, sustainable in- students and faculty traveled to Jerusalem to explore how terfaith programs at Christian institutions, and elicit best people of different religious backgrounds come to know practices from the session’s participants. one another. “A Different Conversation” is a documentary film about their story of religious pluralism and the relation- Katie Basham serves as Coordinator of Interfaith Pro- ships that extend beyond mere tolerance and coexistence. gramming and Assistant Director of Berea College’s Wil- lis D. Weatherford, Jr. Campus Christian Center, where she Lindsay Emery is majoring in Linguistics at Duke Univer- creates successful and sustainable interfaith programming sity. She is actively involved in Passport Magazine, an infor the college community. She has collaborated with fel- ternationally themed magazine at Duke. Lindsay spent her low presenter Courtney Brooks on many interfaith initia- final undergraduate summer working with DukeEngage to tives, focusing on the college’s Residence Life. a low-income community in Salta, Argentina. Here, Lind- say facilitated the creation of a hand-painted mural that Courtney Brooks is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociol- depicts the experience of the community members. ogy from the University of Kentucky. As a Student Life Col- legium and Violence Prevention and Education Coordina- Jonathan Cross is pursuing a double major in Religion and tor, she works closely with many campus constituents to Arabic at Duke University, as well as a certificate in Islamic address issues of violence, including domestic violence, Studies. While at Duke, his summer research projects in dating violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes. Egypt and Ethiopia have influenced his perception of religion as an experience that contends with, and thrives on, Relational Meetings: Fostering both historic and contemporary realities. Pluralism in a Democratic Society Detention Center Visitation Program: Mustafa Abdullah, The Wake Forest University Muslim A Model for Interfaith Action Students Association and Interfaith Council David Fraccaro, Interfaith Youth Core Room: Rock - 207 Room: Big Ten - 104 This workshop will expose attendees to the importance of relational power. The presenter will prelude the work- There are currently over 30,000 undocumented immi- shop with a brief examination of the fundamental building grants and asylum seekers detained in some 400 deten- block of relational power: the relational meeting. The pre- tion centers and county jails across the United States who senter will then proceed by leading attendees in practic- desperately need a friend and advocate, a visitor. This ses- ing the art of the relational meeting. sion will explore the ethical issues surrounding immigration and detention, and will educate and train a core group Mustafa Abdullah is a senior majoring in Philosophy of interfaith volunteers to begin visiting and befriending and Religion at Wake Forest University. He is founder and those suffering in detention. president of Winston-Salem for World Faith, a multi-faith organization using community service to demonstrate how David Fracarro is the new Trainer on Issues of Immigra- religion can promote the common good. He has organiz- tion at the IFYC. He previously coordinated New York Workshops: Tuesday, October 27 p 43

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City’s Sojourners Visitation Program, which visits immi- Johns Hopkins University in May of 2009. While at Hopkins, grants and asylum seekers in detention. Additionally, Da- Winston Ibrahim was the first Muslim in the history of the vid has worked with the National Council of Churches-USA school to sit on the Executive Board of Jewish Fraternity and World Council of Churches in young adult ecumenical AEPI. He will be starting in finance in Manhattan in 2010. formation. Julie Gutowski is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania majoring in Communications. She is studying the effects of Leveraging Web 2.0 for Social interfaith dialogue on conflict resolution processes. Julie is Movements: Clear Tactics for the also Co-Chair of the Undergraduate Communication Soci- ety, a member of Student Government, and a mentor to an Greater Strategy elementary school student in West Philadelphia.

Frank Fredericks, World Faith Roxana Moussavian is a Junior at the University of Penn- sylvania pursuing a major in Middle East Studies, and is Room: Northwestern A - 202A very interested in the politics and religions of the region. Frank Fredericks of World Faith will share how to maxi- She also studies Arabic. She is actively involved in inter- mize web exposure by utilizing the newest web technolo- faith dialogue at Penn, holding a minority seat on the Uni- gies, including search engine technologies, blogs, viral versity Council. video, and social networks. These technologies can best Ibrahim Kareem is a senior at Florida State University, be utilized by using two frameworks; marketing research double majoring in International Affairs and Middle East- and execution, and the media teachings of Marshall Mc- ern Studies. Ibrahim is actively involved in Middle East Cluhan. Peace Association, the Arab Cultural Association, Muslim Frank Fredericks started World Faith in 2001, an interfaith Student Association, and Hillel in order to help promote community service non-profit now active in five countries. greater interfaith understanding. Fredericks also currently works as an Online Marketing Consultant, and contributes to several blogs, including Making the Case for Faith-Based TheWebUncovered.com, and the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue. Service Learning Mara Kassoff, Jewish Service Learning Project at the Small Steps to Greater Understanding: Bureau of Jewish Education A First Hand Look at the Ibrahim Room: Arch - 206 Leadership and Dialogue Project Join Mara Kassoff of the San Francisco Jewish Service in the Middle East Learning Project for a conversation about service-learning as an effective teaching method for faith-based ser- Julie Gutowski, Winston Ibrahim, Ibrahim Kareem vice initiatives. Learn how to connect faith-based values and Roxana Moussavian, the Ibrahim Leadership and to relevant community issues using the triad of education, Dialogue Project meaningful service, and reflection to engage youth in cre- Room: Northwestern B - 202B ating social change. Mara Kassoff serves as the Director of the Jewish Service In June 2009 the Ibrahim Leadership and Dialogue Project Learning Project at the Bureau of Jewish Education in San had its inaugural trip. Eight students were selected to trav- Francisco. Kassoff has worked in the nonprofit sector as el across the Middle East to foster a deeper understanding an educator, leader and manager for local and national of faith and culture through dialogue and personal interac- organizations, including Jewish Vocational Service in San tion. Hear how participants were impacted and inspired to Francisco, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and carry on ongoing interfaith dialogue. the American Jewish University. Winston Ibrahim, co-founder of the Ibrahim Leader- ship and Dialogue Program, graduated with honors from p 44 Workshops: Tuesday, October 27

11:45 am - 12:45 pm Speed Faithing: Bahá’í Faith Vocalo.org/89.5 FM Make-Your-Own- Jeremy Lambshead and Carmel Kleinhenz, Bahá’í Radio Workshop — Part 2 National Center / Bahá’í House of Worship Sarah Lu and Eric Roldan, Vocalo.org Room: Wildcat B - 101B Room: Evans - 102 Carmel Kleinhenz is a recent graduate of Northwestern Producers will teach participants how to record, edit and University, where she was a resident of Interfaith Hall and share their own audio pieces for possible broadcast over a member of the Northwestern University Council of Reli- the airwaves on 89.5 FM and online at Vocalo.org. Required gions. In this capacity, she had opportunities to participate stuff: a laptop with the free open-source program Audacity in IFYC events and help plan days of service. Kleinhenz installed (downloads for Macs or PCs available at audac- currently works at the Baha’i House of Worship. ity.sourceforge.net), headphones, stories to tell. This is a Jeremy Lambshead has been active with IFYC since the closed session. spring of 2005. After graduating from Carleton College, Sarah Lu is a Chicago-based audio producer. She makes Jeremy worked with an environmental organization pro- radio and teaches other people how to make radio for Vo- moting energy-efficiency. He also at this time began rigor- calo.org/89.5 FM. Vocalo aims to make public media truly ously examining the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh, resulting in public by giving everyone access to the airwaves, and his embrace of the Bahá’í Faith in the fall of 2005. A year seeking out voices that are traditionally underrepresented later he began serving as a writer at the Bahá’í National in mainstream media. Center in Evanston, IL, where he has remained until now. Erik Roldan co-founded and co-hosted WLUW 88.7 FM’s Think Pink Radio, a weekly program that focused on music Developing the Spirit of a Servant Leader made by the GLBT community. Roldan has kept the TPR Barbara Linek, University of Illinois Extension and name as a queer arts and politics blog at www.thinkpink- Gerald Bouey, TBG Leadership & Consulting, LLC radio.com. Erik works at Vocalo.org, and you can find him at vocalo.org/explore/users/Erik. Room: Chicago - 103 In a lively, interactive presentation including examples Having Faith in Youth: Models for Work- drawn from sources as diverse as Stephen Covey, Doro- thy Day, and Mother Teresa, the presenters will discuss the ing with Teens and Younger Children philosophy of servant leadership, the qualities of a servant Asaf Bar-Tura, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs; Lou- leader and how to develop your leadership skills through ise Sheehy, Multifaith Education Project; Paula Weiss, reflection. Children at the Well; Donna Yates, Poetry Pals Barbara Linek is the County Director for University of Il- Moderator: Hind Makki, Interfaith Youth Core. linois Extension in DuPage County where she focuses on increasing programming for the local immigrant and refu- Room: McCormick Auditorium gee communities. She holds a Master’s in Organizational Four distinguished interfaith workers will discuss the pro- Leadership from Lewis University. Linek currently serves grams they each founded and direct, involving children or her multicultural church as the chair of the pastoral council. pre-college teens in service-learning, poetry writing, sto- Gerald Bouey held several impressive roles during his rytelling, and asset-based youth development to promote 37 years working in the financial services industry. Bou- interfaith awareness in their communities. They will also ey currently operates a consulting practice allowing him address how to partner with parents, teachers and local to ignite human potential, compassion, and greatness in interfaith networks. communities and individuals. His work centers on trans- Asaf Bar-Tura coordinates the Jewish-Muslim Community formational leadership, positive psychology, and the en- Building Initiative, and is working on his PhD in political gagement of the whole person. philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Bar-Tura previ- Workshops: Tuesday, October 27 p 45

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

ously worked as the director of an educational program serving 300 children in the underserved Bedford Park community of the north Bronx, in New York City.

Louise Sheehy is the founder/director of the Multifaith Education Project in Central Florida. She coordinates activities and keeps hope alive when students and faculty at the three participating schools get burned out or skepti- cal. She will present tangible projects and photos of the students working together to experience a new definition of community.

Paula Weiss is co-creator and co-director of the Children at the Well Youth interfaith storytelling project. Weiss has served as publicist for the Interfaith Story Circle of the Tri- City Area, and as secretary of its board. She is a classroom presenter for the Scotia-Glenville Traveling Museum’s “Culture Box” program.

Donna Yates is the founder of and a poet-educator at Poet- ry Pals, an organization that creates opportunities for partnership, expression, and friendship through poetry and art. Yates previously worked in the Philadelphia Jewish community for over 25 years, focusing on informal education and interfaith cultural programming.

Hind Makki is a Program Associate in IFYC’s Outreach Education & Training department. She travels to college campuses, congregations and conferences in the United States and Western Europe, offering trainings on religious pluralism, interfaith service-learning and meaningful interfaith dialogues. Hind received her BA in International Relations from Brown University. p 46 Thank You to Our Donors

IFYC proudly thanks the following foundations for their generous support of the Conference:

The Nathan Cummings The McCormick Foundation is rooted in the Foundation is a THE NATHAN Jewish tradition and com- nonprofit organi- mitted to democratic values CUMMIFOUNDATIONNGS zation committed to strengthening our free, democratic and social justice, including society by investing in children, communities and coun- fairness, diversity, and com- try. Through its grantmaking programs, Cantigny Park and munity. We seek to build a socially and economically just Golf, museums, and civic outreach program the Foundation society that values and protects the ecological balance for helps build a more active and engaged citizenry. It was future generations; promotes humane health care; and fos- established as a charitable trust in 1955, upon the death ters arts and culture that enriches communities. of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the longtime editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The McCormick Foun- dation is one of the nation’s largest charities, with more than $1 billion in assets. For more information, please visit www.McCormickFoundation.org.

The mission of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund is to help build a healthy, just, and vibrant society in which people feel connected to and responsible for their community. The Righteous Persons Foundation is dedicated to supporting efforts that build a diverse and vibrant Jewish community in the United States and to supporting coexistence efforts that foster common ground and understanding.

The Henry Luce Foundation was established in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., to honor his parents who were missionary educators in China. The Wicklander Foundation, Inc. The Foundation builds upon the vision and values of four generations of the Luce family: The Wicklander Foundation was established to provide fi- broadening knowledge and encouraging the nancial assistance to organizations and institutions that are highest standards of service and leadership. engaged in religious, educational, charitable and/or med- The Henry Luce Foundation seeks to bring ical research projects in the Chicago metropolitan area. important ideas to the center of American life, strengthen international understanding, and foster innovation and leadership in academic, policy, religious and art communities. Thank You To Our NGO Sponsors p 47

Stop by and visit our NGO Sponsors at their booths on the second floor of the Norris Center.

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www.parliamentofreligions.org p 48 Conference Schedule

Day One, Sunday, October 25th 10:00 am Registration 12:00 pm Opening Plenary Session: “A Vision for Interfaith Leadership” Opening Remarks: Dr. Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core Keynote Speaker: Farah Pandith, US Department of State Louis Room, Norris Center, Northwestern University 1:30 pm Break 1:45 pm Concurrent Workshops (60 minutes) 2:45 pm Break 3:00 pm Concurrent Workshops (60 minutes) 4:00 pm Break 4:15 pm Concurrent Workshops (60 minutes) 5:15 pm Networking Dinner 6:30 pm Break 7:00 pm Evening Plenary Session: “A Conversation on Interfaith Leadership” Reverend Jim Wallis, Sojourners Magazine Dr. Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core Pick-Staiger Auditorium, Northwestern University 8:30 pm Break 9:00 pm Sneak-Preview of “The Calling” PBS Documentary Series Q&A with the Filmmakers McCormick Auditorium, Norris Center, Northwestern University

Day Two, Monday, October 26th 8:00 am Registration 9:00 am Morning Plenary Session: “Interfaith Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship and Movement Building” Keith Ellison, US House of Representatives Wayne Firestone, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Adria Goodson, Hunt Alternatives Fund Ruth Turner, Tony Blair Faith Foundation Moderator: Adam Goodman, Center for Leadership, Northwestern University Louis Room, Norris Center, Northwestern University 10:15 am Break 10:30 am Concurrent Workshops (60 minutes) 11:30 am Break 11:45 am Concurrent Workshops (60 minutes) 12:45 pm Break 1:00 pm Networking Lunch Conference Schedule p 49

2:00 pm Afternoon Plenary Session: “Interfaith Leadership and Religious Identity” Anju Bhargava, Hindu American Seva Charities Maha Elgenaidi, Islamic Networks Group Greg Epstein, Harvard University Skye Jethani, Christianity Today Rabbi Or Rose, Hebrew College Moderator: Erin Toolis, Faiths Act Fellowship Louis Room, Norris Center, Northwestern University 3:15 pm Break 3:30 pm Concurrent Workshops (90 minutes) 5:00 pm Break 5:15 pm Bridge-Builders Awards Reception, Louis Lobby 6:00 pm Bridge-Builders Awards Ceremony and Keynote Keynote Speaker: Rabbi David Saperstein, Religious Action Center, Union for Reform Judaism Louis Room, Norris Center, Northwestern University 7:30 pm Break 8:00 pm Film Screening: “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” Q&A with Filmmaker Gini Reticker McCormick Auditorium, Norris Center, Northwestern University

Day Three, Tuesday, October 27th 9:00 am Morning Plenary Session: “Interfaith Leadership and Critical Issues” Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, Malaria No More Jennifer Bailey, Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee Geri Mannion, The Carnegie Corporation Moderator: Joshua Stanton, Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue Louis Room, Norris Center, Northwestern University 10:00 am Break 10:15 am Concurrent Workshops (60 minutes) 11:15 am Break and grab lunch 11:45 am Concurrent Workshops (60 minutes) 12:45 pm Break 1:00 pm Closing Plenary: “Interfaith Leadership and Service” Joshua DuBois, White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Rami Nashashibi, Inner-City Muslim Action Network Louis Room, Norris Center, Northwestern University 2:30 pm Break 3:00 pm Interfaith Service Projects around Evanston 7:00 pm Interfaith Dialogue and Celebration Louis Room, Norris Center, Northwestern University Map of Norris

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