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Hana Suckstorff
Hana Suckstorff, communications associate, assists with the management of IFYC’s online content. She holds a B.A. in history from Northwestern University, a degree for which she spent time in Italy performing research for her thesis on Renaissance theology. An avid student of the history of religion, Hana is fascinated both by religion in the past (especially medieval and early modern Europe) and today, particularly its intersection with current affairs and public life.
Posted on February 14, 2012 - By Hana Suckstorff
If Valentine’s Day is dedicated to love, it should be to the kind of all-giving selflessness that faith heroes like Dorothy Day represent.
Brad Seligmann
Brad Seligmann was a member of the 2008-2009 Fellows Alliance, and is an alumnus of Xavier University in Cincinnati, where he studied political science, theology, and peace studies. While in undergrad, Brad volunteered as a coordinator for Metro Cincinnati Interfaith Youth, a high school interfaith youth group. Brad currently works for the University of Michigan as the coordinator for Interfaith Action at the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning.
Posted on February 6, 2012 - By Brad Seligmann
I see in my students what I experienced myself years ago and now feel again: motivation, inspiration, and connection to a movement that is drawing the circle of inclusion wider ...
Peter Dziedzic
Posted on February 6, 2012 - By Peter Dziedzic
The several-hour hike up the fertile, sloped ledges of the mountain northeast of Bogotá to reach Laguna de Guatavita bloomed into a personal pilgrimage with each step and breath
Hana Suckstorff
Hana Suckstorff, communications associate, assists with the management of IFYC’s online content. She holds a B.A. in history from Northwestern University, a degree for which she spent time in Italy performing research for her thesis on Renaissance theology. An avid student of the history of religion, Hana is fascinated both by religion in the past (especially medieval and early modern Europe) and today, particularly its intersection with current affairs and public life.
Posted on February 3, 2012 - By Hana Suckstorff
I was born into nearly every privileged group in this country—white, middle-class, and Christian. I cannot speak to the struggle for reconciliation as Martin Luther King did ...
Aamir Hussain
Aamir Hussain is a native of Farmington, CT. Aamir's father is from Hyderabad, India, and his mother (while being of Indian origin) is from Kowloon, Hong Kong. Because of the intersection of American, Indian, Chinese, and Muslim cultures in his family, he is very interested in foreign languages, exotic foods, and traveling to different countries. He is nicknamed “The-Punisher” for his penchant for making (bad) puns.
Posted on January 25, 2012 - By Aamir Hussain
I was glad we would have a short break to attend Jummah, and even more excited to meet a new Muslim imam. Thus, I was completely shocked when I was asked to lead.
Kyle Anderson
Kyle Anderson, campus engagement associate, works with college campuses to help spread interfaith cooperation. Kyle first experienced the power of bringing together people from different backgrounds for an important cause in Washington, DC, where he worked in development for N Street Village, an organization that supports homeless women. Kyle is a graduate student in Loyola University Chicago’s Masters in Higher Education program. Outside of IFYC, he can be found spending time with his lovely new wife Keira, and rooting loudly for the New York Giants and San Francisco Giants.
Posted on January 23, 2012 - By Kyle Anderson
Oprah was offering reflections on her twenty-five or so years on the air, and then said something that really struck a chord with me ...
C. Nikole Saulsberry
C. Nikole Saulsberry began her career in social change as an inaugural member of Interfaith Youth Core’s Fellows Alliance in 2007-2008. After graduating she completed two years of AmeriCorps national service; first as corps member with National Civilian Community Corps and then as a New Sector Alliance AmeriCorps Resident in Social Enterprise. Nikole’s interests lie in fostering religious pluralism through simultaneous efforts of common action, policy engagement, liberation theology and hermeneutics of social justice.
Posted on January 19, 2012 - By C. Nikole Saulsberry
By C. Nikole Saulsberry: Just when you feel the world has reached a new level of acceptance, one single act of hatred motivated by fear can make you doubt whether or not peace is possible.
Cassie Meyer
Cassie Meyer, director of content, oversees training and curriculum development at IFYC. She also teaches courses on interfaith cooperation with Eboo Patel and researches and writes about IFYC’s work in publications like the Journal of College and Character, for which she has been a guest editor. She has a master’s degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School, has been adjunct faculty at several Chicago-area seminaries, and sits on a number of boards relevant to interfaith work in seminaries and faith communities.
Posted on January 13, 2012 - By Cassie Meyer
By Cassie Meyer: In understanding the civil rights movement as a movement where interfaith cooperation was a key strategy for creating real social change, students begin to see that the work they are doing has the potential to change
Ana Ashby
Ana Ashby was a 2008-2009 Fellow with the Interfaith Youth Core, and a 2010-2011 alumna Coach for IFYC's Better Together campaign. Ana is an alumni of St. Olaf College, lives in Minneapolis and works for the Office for Social Justice of Catholic Charities Minneapolis and St. Paul as a Public Policy Organizer.
Posted on January 13, 2012 - By Ana Ashby
By Ana Ashby: Working in a place where my tradition’s language is the one I use every day has re-opened my eyes to what my religion means to me
Rhee-Soo Lee
Rhee-Soo Lee graduated from Wesleyan University in 2011 with a double-major in government and religion. She was heavily involved in Wesleyan's Interfaith Justice League, and organized the annual Fast-a-Thon and Ramadan Banquet during her senior year, which raised over $14,200 for a local food pantry. She is spending the 2011-2012 year in Boston as a Micah Fellow, working with the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in a fellowship that strives for social and structural justice through service.
Posted on January 10, 2012 - By Rhee-Soo Lee
By Rhee-Soo Lee: I decided to see what exactly the event was about, and from that first meeting, I was hooked.
Skyler Oberst
Skyler Oberst is a senior, pursuing dual degrees in philosophy and anthropology with an emphasis in religious studies at Eastern Washington University. After witnessing religious intolerance on campus, he founded, and is now the Secretary-General of the Compassionate Interfaith Society (CIS), a group dedicated to religious acceptance, diversity and appreciation. The CIS has grown to be one of the largest clubs on campus, and has been the host to many diverse speakers, and has even erected a peace-pole on campus, which is EWU's first monument dedicated to peace.
Posted on January 6, 2012 - By Skyler Oberst
As a Christian, I always thought that the season of charity should last all year. Yet donations of essential items are down 60 percent this year at SHARE, a local homeless shelter, and after Christmas the volunteers are gone
Claire Solomon
Claire Solomon graduated from Skidmore College in May 2010 with a degree in American Studies. For the past year and a half, she has lived in Jackson, Mississippi, working as an Education Fellow at the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. She first got involved in the interfaith movement when she met Eboo in the spring of 2006 at the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia, where he commented on the speed at which she could write haiku. She followed the IFYC through high school and college, and terribly misses her 2008-2009 IFYC Fellows.
Posted on December 21, 2011 - By Claire Solomon
By Claire Solomon: We as interfaith leaders are that tiny candle in my favorite Chanukah song. We illuminate darkness.

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