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Mary Ann Meyers

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Mary Ann Meyers is a writer and Senior Fellow at the John Templeton Foundation, where she heads the Humble Approach Initiative, a program that brings together scientists, philosophers, and theologians in international symposia. She is also a secretary and a director of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Before coming to Templeton, she served as a Secretary of the University of Pennsylvania for more than a decade and taught American religious history. She subsequently served as the President of the Annenberg Foundation, and earlier in her career, she taught at Haverford College. Her books include Art, Education and African-American Culture: Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy (2004) and A New World Jerusalem: The Swedenborgian Experience in Community Construction (1983). Meyers graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University and holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
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