Faith in Action: A Roundtable on Interfaith Service

Year-End Event of the White House Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge

Thursday, April 11, 2013
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Berkley Center Third Floor Conference Room Map

Since fall 2011, Georgetown University has been an active participant in the President's Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, a White House initiative engaging nearly 400 campuses around the country. This year-end roundtable was an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and community partners to come together to reflect on their experiences in advancing interfaith engagement around community challenges of poverty and educational opportunity.

Jack Gordon, founder of Faith in Action DC, a multimedia project that documents and celebrates the social justice and community service work of diverse people of faith in the Washington, DC area, led the discussion. Other participants included Rebecca Ennen, Jews United for Justice; Rev. Joi Orr, Faith for Change; Gretchen Rydin and Chase Kimball, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and Sana Saeed, Interfaith Alliance.

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About Jack Gordon

Jack Gordon is a professional media producer and and co-founder of Digital Development Communications (DDC) International. Coming from a family with Jewish, Christian, and Bahá'í relatives, Gordon has a deeply personal understanding of the importance of building positive interfaith relationships which he brings to his work. As a dedicated interfaith organizer, he served as a board member with the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington for seven years.

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About Rebecca Ennen

Rebecca Ennen is the development and communications director for Jews United for Justice, where she has worked since August 2010. She previously was a staff writer and facilitator with Jewish Dialogue Group, helping Jews talk about thorny issues across political differences. She has also worked as a professional theater artist and community organizer in Philadelphia. She studied theater and education at Swarthmore College and was a Fulbright Fellow in Sri Lanka; in addition, Ennen studied classical Jewish text in New York.

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About Sana Saeed

Sana Saeed is coordinator of LEADD (Leadership Education Advancing Democracy & Diversity), the Interfaith Alliance’s national youth program promoting active citizenship in a multi-faith society to high school students. Saeed's previous positions include director of youth programs at Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Virginia; consulting program manager for the Interfaith Youth Action Group; campus program coordinator for the American Islamic Congress's Project Nur; and program associate for Clergy Beyond Borders. She has also been a columnist for the Islamic Monthly. Saeed has a M.S. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.

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