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Who is Who in Interreligious Dialogue

The KAICIID Who is Who in Interreligious Dialogue is an online directory of individuals active and expert in the field of IRD including religious leaders, policymakers, heads of international organizations, teachers, trainers and activists.  Search the directory to connect with experts and specialists from every region engaged in a wide variety of initiatives.

Swami Varadananda

Board of Trustees, Parliament of the World’s Religions

Swami Varadananda is a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Order, which has its headquarters at Belur Math in India. Swami Varadananda joined the Vivekananda Vedanta Society of Chicago in 1973, was ordained in 1982, and is now the manager of the center. Of Catholic background, he discovered Vedanta and me...

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Alison Van Dyk

Board of Trustees, Parliament of the World's Religions

Alison Van Dyk holds M.A. degrees in clinical psychology and transpersonal counciling psychology. She has been a child psychotherapist in private practice for the past 30 years. In 1989 she founded the Early Childhood Project for preschool at risk children in the South Bronx, New York. She is chairm...

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JOYCE S. DUBENSKY, Esq.

CEO, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

Board of Directors, Sikh Art & Film Foundation

Joyce S. Dubensky is the CEO of Tanenbaum, a globally recognized thought leader in combating religious violence and hatred by tackling religious bullying of students, harassment in workplaces, and disparate health treatment for people based on their beliefs. Dubensky helps makes the world safer thr...

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DR. EBRAHIM SADRUDDIN PATEL

Founder and President, Interfaith America

Eboo Patel was named by US News & World Report one of America's Best Leaders of 2009. Eboo Patel is the Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a Chicago-based organization building the field of interfaith leadership. Author of the books Acts of Faith, which won the Louisville...

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REV. SUSAN HAYWARD

Senior Advisor for Religion and Inclusive Societies, United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

Susan Hayward is a senior advisor for religion and inclusive societies at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Hayward directs the Institute’s efforts to advance conflict prevention, resolution and reconciliation projects engaging the religious sector. Since joining the Institute in 2007, her field work h...

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PROF. DR. AMY-JILL LEVINE

University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University

Mary Jane Werthan Professor, Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt Divinity School

Professor, Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt College of Arts and Sciences

Affiliated Professor, Woolf Institute: Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge

Amy-Jill Levine (B.A. Smith College; M.A./Ph.D. Duke University) is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies, and Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Graduate Department of Religion, and College of Arts and ...

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RABBI MARC SCHNEIER

President, Foundation for Ethnic Understanding

Founding Rabbi, The Hampton Synagogue

Rabbi Marc Schneier founded the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding in 1989 in order to help improve relationships between members of different ethnicities. One of the Foundation’s initial missions was to spearhead the rebuilding of the historic alliance between Jews and African Americans. His org...

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