Berkley Center

Nathaniel Adams was a program coordinator at WFDD from 2013 through August 2016. He has previously worked in the culture unit at UNESCO’s Kathmandu office on the management of cultural heritage sites and documentation and promotion of intangible culture. He joined WFDD in 2010 as a research fellow in Cambodia looking at "spirit forests" and land rights in highland indigenous communities and the development work of engaged Buddhist clergy. From 2013 to 2016 he worked in Bangladesh with BRAC University on a multi-year research project exploring a broad range of issues related to religion and international development. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Virginia Commonwealth University and an M.Sc. in International Development from Lund University. His thesis explored links between spiritual beliefs, cultural practices, and agricultural biodiversity retention in Nepal.

Crystal Corman was the program manager at WFDD from November 2013 through September 2016. Prior to joining WFDD, Corman consulted at the World Bank on issues related to fragility, violence prevention, and gender. In 2010 she was a Boren Fellow in Malaysia, where she researched Muslim women’s agency within Islam. She also served as a volunteer English teacher in Thailand from 2003 to 2004 through the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s young adult in global mission program. Before graduate school, Corman worked in campus ministry for the Lutheran Student Center from 2005 to 2008 at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is interested in working with religious leaders and communities on development issues related to gender equality, women’s agency, and peacebuilding. Corman holds a B.J. in advertising from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, an M.A. in international peace and conflict resolution from American University, and an M.T.S. from Wesley Theological Seminary.

Lauren Herzog was a program coordinator at WFDD from 2014 to January 2020. She holds a bachelor’s degree in French and psychology from Kalamazoo College, as well as a master’s degree in French and international development from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has received two Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships to study the Wolof language, and she has lived and worked in both Senegal and Congo-Brazzaville. Prior to joining WFDD, Lauren worked at the United African Organization in Chicago, where she implemented health programs within the African immigrant community. She has a strong interest in the role of religion in education and women’s health in Francophone Africa.

Katherine Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, leads the center’s work on religion and global development. She is also a professor of the practice of development, conflict, and religion in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, teaching diverse courses on the ethics of development work and mentoring students at many levels. She helped to create and now serves as the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, an NGO that works to enhance bridges between different sectors and institutions. In September 2022, she was appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Marshall has five decades of experience on a variety of development issues in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and the Middle East, particularly those facing the world’s poorest countries; one way she shares her expertise is through her blog Faith in Action. She was a World Bank officer from 1971 to 2006, and she led the World Bank’s faith and ethics initiative between 2000 and 2006. Marshall is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values and the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, both part of the Culture of Encounter Project.