Berkley Center

Melody Fox Ahmed is the director of global programs at the National Cathedral School. She worked at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs from 2006 to 2018, most recently as the associate director for programs. At the center she oversaw the Doyle Engaging Difference Program, the Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs Certificate, and collaboration with the World Faiths Development Dialogue. She was a lead organizer of the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, a White House Honor Roll program for which Georgetown was recognized as the national winner in 2015. She is a member of the U.S.-Pakistan Interreligious Consortium of Intersections International and served on the Department of State’s Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society Working Group on Religion Training and Tools. She received her B.A. from Vanderbilt University and her M.A. in global, international, and comparative history from Georgetown University, with a focus on Latin America and the Muslim world.

Maurice Jackson is an associate professor of history and African-American studies and an affiliated professor of performing arts (jazz) at Georgetown University. He was also a fellow at Georgetown's Center for Social Justice from 2011 to 2014 and taught a class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project. Jackson is the author of Let This Voice Be Heard, Anthony Benezet Father of Atlantic Abolitionism (2009) and co-editor of African Americans and The Haitian Revolution: Selected Essays and Historical Documents (2010); he has also written numerous journal articles and book chapters. A former shipyard rigger, longshoreman, house painter, and longtime organizer, Jackson was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress during 2005 and 2006 and was a 2011-2012 fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has also written liner notes for CDs by jazz artist Hank Jones and was inducted into the Washington, D.C. Hall of Fame in 2009. Jackson holds a B.A. from Antioch College and M.A. and Ph.D. from Georgetown University.