Berkley Center

Nick Scrimenti (C‘18) is the project associate for the Culture of Encounter and the Global Agenda project at the Berkley Center. Nick is passionate about fostering intercultural encounter and is committed to empowering students to engage in constructive conversations on critical global issues. Before joining the Berkley Center, Nick lived and worked in rural France at the Bonnevaux Center for Peace, a lay-monastic community and retreat center. He is also a freelance writer and producer, and his work has appeared in Commonweal, Peripheries, The Merton Annual, and the Ministry of Ideas podcast. Nick earned a B.A. in theology from Georgetown University, where he was a 2017-2018 Doyle Undergraduate Fellow at the Berkley Center, and a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School. His graduate thesis focused on how colonialism and encounters between Christians and Hindus in twentieth-century Malaysia influenced a certain form of Christian meditation practice. He also holds a graduate certificate in religious studies and education from Harvard University.