Leadership Profiles

This profile was last updated in 2012. It seems that the Rev. Vern Barnet has thought of everything. Barnet’s extensive website [1] provides innumerable multifaith resources and articles documenting over twenty years of interfaith activity in Greater...

This profile was last updated in 2012. Dr. Imad Damaj is a visionary leader who understands that an increasing religious diversity presents communities and the nation with a choice: bridges or barriers. “We have a new reality, and we either have to choose...

This profile was last updated in 2012. The Reverend Tom Duke seeks to “provide a visible center and point of contact” for organizing interfaith programming in the Twin Cities. Duke founded the Saint Paul Interfaith Network (SPIN) to do just that [ 1]...

This profile was last updated in 2012. Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer knew that she wanted to be an interfaith educator before such a role existed. She recalls that in the 1970s, “We didn’t have those words. That wasn’t a career path. But that was what I was...

This profile was last updated in 2012. “Interfaith dialogue is not about similarities or differences, it’s about humanity. It’s about letting people be who they are.” Gagandeep Kaur’s involvement within the interfaith movement in San Diego is guided by...

This profile was last updated in 2012. Although he just turned 21, Skyler Oberst is well-known in the Inland and Pacific Northwest interfaith community. Oberst co-founded the Compassionate Interfaith Society [ 1] and Friends of Compassion [ 2], served as...