Berkley Center

Senior Research Fellow Elisa Massimino was featured in the Washingtonian's list of the 500 Most Influential People of 2023 for her work on pressing the Biden administration to deliver on its promise to put human rights at the center of American foreign policy by closing Guantanamo Bay and holding human rights abusers accountable.

Senior Fellow José Casanova delivered a May 11 keynote address at the Volos Academy for Theological Studies' conference on "Individual and Community in the Wake of the Public Discourse of the Orthodox Church."

In this interview, published by the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy, Elisa Chavez and Vija Herefoss join Senior Research Fellow Judd Birdsall to discuss their most recent report through the Stefanus Alliance on gender-attentive religious freedom advocacy.

Rabbi Dr. Abraham Skorka, a senior research fellow for Jewish studies and Jewish-Christian relations at Georgetown University, received an honorary doctorate from the Department of Theology of the University of Trnava in Slovakia. Pope Francis then sent Skorka, his long-time friend, a letter to congratulate him and recall his commitment to interreligious dialogue, faith, and human rights.