Pastor Arias is a native of Argentina and moved to the United States in the 1990s. The people of Saint Peter’s Church accompanied Pastor Arias throughout the immigration process. He led Iglesia de Sion in Spanish Harlem, which ultimately merged with Saint Peter’s Church in January 2020.

Samim is the Chief Investment Officer at Wahed Invest where he launched the first Islamic Equity ETFs in the US and helped grow the business from near inception to over 200,000 clients globally. Prior to Wahed, Samim managed the internal public investments portfolio at Google.

Nikos is the Chief Technology Officer for Bountiful Financial. He is an AI and data strategy expert who has delivered intelligent solutions for eight of the ten largest global banks and authored more than a dozen papers on AI-powered transformation in finance.

Huda is the Senior Manager of Civil Society & Foundation Partnerships at USA for UNHCR, where she builds and manages strategic partnerships with civil society organizations, faith-based partners, and foundations to advance the wellbeing and empowerment of displaced communities worldwide.

Dr. Almontaser is the Founder and CEO of Bridging Cultures Group, Inc. She was the founding and former principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn. A 25 year veteran of the NYC Public School system, she trained teachers in literacy, and taught special education and inclusion. She is the Board President of the Muslim Community Network.

Sydney is the Chief Executive Officer of Teach Coalition. Teach Coalition is a project of the Orthodox Union dedicated to advocating for government funding and resources for nonpublic schools. She is also the Director of EPIC Coalition which advocates for religious freedom. Formerly she led Teach NYS representing Teach across New York.

Pastor Arnold is the Senior Pastor at The Bruderhof, an intentional Christian community of people living in radical discipleship in the spirit of the first church in Jerusalem.

Rev. Bernard is the founder, CEO, and Pastor of the Christian Cultural Center, one of New York’s largest houses of worship. He has been recognized as one of New York’s 50 Most Powerful People in Brooklyn, The Power Pastor by The New York Times, and a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Consulate General of Israel.

Fr. Vincent is the Associate Director of The Catholic Center at NYU. Since his ordination, he has traveled to speak at college retreats, led student pilgrimages abroad, and worked to strengthen the Catholic community at NYU.

Rabbi Blum is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth Chaim in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. She has served a number of other Reform synagogues, one Hillel, two hospitals, two URJ summer camps, and several other institutions where she engaged in teaching, preaching, leading worship, and programming for people of all ages and stages.

Anthe is an Assistant Attorney General in the Charities Bureau of the Office of the NYS Attorney General and a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. She also co-taught the Community Economic Development Clinic at Fordham University School of Law outlining the fundamentals of NY non-profit law with clinical students while representing social justice organizations in practice.

Rev. Breyer is the Director of the Interfaith Center of New York. She is an Episcopal Priest in the Diocese of New York and has served at Harlem churches for more than two decades. She participates in local religious peacemaking work, interfaith dialogues, and humanitarian aid initiatives, including as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of The Close: A Young Woman’s First Year at Seminary.

Ruben taught elementary school students in New York City public schools for 12 years. He currently facilitates workshops on racial equity and high quality math instruction for the Center for Racial Justice in Education and Teaching lab. He is a member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.

Imam Brown is a scholar at the Muslim Center of Greater Princeton. He is currently a resident student at Fayda Institute. He is a member of the MCGP Interfaith Committee in which he serves as a representative Iman on behalf of MCGP.

Bishop Victor Brown is the senior pastor of Mt. Sinai United Christian Church and a former adjunct professor of preaching at New York Theological Seminary. He is also a member of the Worldwide Fellowship of Independent Christian Churches.

Rev. Buccheri is the Rector at the Church of St. Edward the Martyr. El Barrio Angels is a migrant services program offered by his church. Their mission is to provide a safe space and network of resources and support to immigrants, regardless of status or ability to pay.

Rabbi Buchdahl is the Senior Rabbi at the Central Synagogue. She was the first East Asian-American to be ordained as a rabbi, and the first East Asian-American to be ordained as a hazzan (cantor). In 2011 she was named by Newsweek and The Daily Beast as one of America’s Most Influential Rabbis.

Rev. Carmichael is the Founder and Senior Pastor of Live Well Church in Windsor, New Jersey. He serves as a hospice staff chaplain for Ennoble Care, as a police chaplain for Robbinsville Township, and as a certified life and wellness coach. He is committed to helping all people live well - mind, body, and spirit.

Venerable Chang Kuan graduated from the first class of the Shanghai Buddhist Institute in 1984. She received full ordination in 1985. In 1988 she founded the Western Buddhist Association in New York, along with Fanyin Temple and Fanyin Pure Land Center, where she has continued her monastic service to this day.

Honorable Cook was the first female faith leader and African-American to hold the position of U.S. Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedman. She was the principal advisor to President Obama and Secretary Hillary Clinton for religious freedom globally and a Faith Advisor & Domestic Policy Analyst for President William Clinton. She has been a senior pastor for more than 30 years.

Jim is the Director for Education of the New York State Catholic Conference., and the Co-Chairman at the NYS Coalition for Independent and Religious Schools.

Elder Daines presently serves as the Area President of the US Northeast Area for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Prior to this calling as a General Authority, he was a professor of law and business at Stanford Law School, and before that a professor at New York University from 1997 to 2004.

Rev. Davie is the Senior Executive Vice President at Union Theological Seminary, where he helped advance the institution’s mission of preparing leaders to engage the pressing challenges of our time. He is the Co-Chair of the Interfaith Center of New York, and a Trustee of The Interchurch Center.

Jim is a digital marketing pioneer and co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Bountiful Financial, a faith-based investment firm. Jim is an Executive Chairman of the Rockwell Trust, a nonprofit advancing faith in popular culture.

Rev. DeGraff is the New York State Clergy Leader for Choose Healthy Life, a network of 30 interdenominational churches across New York State, including 20 churches in New York City, helping these churches address current health challenges. He served at Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem for 50 years.

Nicolas is a social impact executive and partnership strategist who leads North American private sector engagement for the UN World Food Programme. Over a career spanning more than two decades, he has mobilized resources and built high-impact partnerships across the humanitarian, health, an development sectors, working with leading corporations, foundations, and global institutions to advance sustainable social change.

Father Derbes is the director of the Catholic Center at NYU. Previously he was a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame in the Mendoza College of Business. From 2014-2020, he served as director of an initiative at the Vatican under Pope Francis to design, implement, and teach an executive leadership development program for the Cardinals, Bishops and senior lay officials of the Roman Curia.

Sheri is executive vice president and chief content officer of Deseret Management Corporation. She was a White House delegate to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations. She served in the General Presidency of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1997 to 2002.

Rabbi Feldman is an author and educator. He serves as a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University, where he also acts as Executive Editor of RIETS Press. He is also the rabbi of Congregation Ohr Saadya in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Rev. Finn, OMI, has been a director of the USP Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation ministry since 1999 domestically and in Rome. He is Chief of Faith Consistent Investing for the OIP Investment Trust and represents the OIP at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, where he has served a Chair. He was instrumental in the formation of the International Interfaith Investment Group.

Kate is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Gaelic from 2024 to 2026. She called on the government to let children practice religious belief in school with out mockery, to allow children to “explore, develop and understand the diversity of religious faith in Scotland, because if they can understand it in school you will hope that as they go through the rest of their life they will be tolerant of people who believe that things are different to them.”

Rabbi Gerson is the Associate Executive Vice President of the New York Board of Rabbis (NYBR). A major focus of her work has been to advance the NYBR’s leadership role in confronting family violence, domestic violence, sexual abuse and the exploitation of children by working with other faith communities.

Basmah is the Manager of Corporate & Civil Society Partnerships, UNICEF, USA, where she supports UNICEF's relationship with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and leads on thought leadership strategy as well as the partnership across the Asia and Pacific regions.

Rev. Grainszvolt is a Shinnyo-en Buddhist priest and a licensed clinical mental health counselor. He is the first Buddhist chaplain in the history of NYPD. He is also a NYU faculty member specializing in mindfulness, meditation and contemplative practices.

Judge Griffith is a retired federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2020. Judge Griffith is now focusing his practice on appellate litigation, congressional and internal investigations, and strategic counseling.

Noah directs the Ark Immigration Clinic at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. He is a Department of Justice Fully Accredited Representative, which allows him to represent immigrant New Yorkers before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Immigration Courts, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Andrew is the President and CEO of the One America Movement, an organization founded by faith leaders to fight toxic polarization. One America supports faith leaders and faith communities in rejecting toxic forms of division and offers a moral vision that transcends our divisive and disconnected culture.

Bishop Heyd was installed as the 17th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York on February 10, 2024. He served for ten years as the rector of the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City. He helped launch Episcopal Charities in the Diocese of New York and has served as chief operating officer of a national non-profit connecting students and teachers in schools to service opportunities.

Stephen is an Advisor and Segment Lead for FEG Investment Advisor’s Higher Education practice. Previously he held equity research and portfolio management roles with J.P. Morgan, HSBC, and Oppenheimer Capital in New York.

Dr. Howell is presently the Associate Academic Vice President at Brigham Young University. He is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining BYU, he was a visiting professor at Purdue University, a finite element analysis consultant for Engineering Methods, Inc., and an engineer on the design of the YF-22 (the prototype for the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor).

John is General Counsel for the Bruderhof, a Christian community movement in the Anabaptist tradition. He also serves as a board member, teacher and coach in Bruderhof Schools. He has been on the board of the Becket Fund for years and serves on the NYS Education Dept. Commissioner’s Advisory Council for Religious and Independent Schools.

Chaitali is a volunteer Communications Lead at BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha. By day she works in process improvement and change management, strategic planning and communications, and is a data science enthusiast.

Pastor Johnson is an evangelical pastor, interfaith advocate, and co-founder and president of the ministry Standing Together, a nonprofit that seeks to advance biblical unity among evangelical churches and pastors. He is the co-author of “Bridging the Divide: The Continuing Conversation Between a Mormon and an Evangelical.”

Jane Clayson Johnson is a former ABC News correspondent and co-anchor, with Bryant Gumbel, of The Early Show on CBS. She is a frequent host on NPR’s Here & Now and author of I Am a Mother and Silent Souls Weeping.

Dr. Karam is the president of Lead Integrity. She is an Egyptian professor and author who has worked in integrating religion and sustainable development at the United Nations, at Religions for Peace on interfaith collaboration and contributed to strengthening the role of religion with the United Nations.

Father Kazarian serves as Ecumenical Officer and Director of the Department of Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. He has authored two books and over 60 articles including about interfaith relations. He is the parish priest of Saint Eleftherios Greek Orthodox Church in Manhattan.

Dr. Kincaid is the director of Baylor University’s Institute for Faith and Learning. Her research focuses on the intersection of theological ethics, legal ethics and business ethics, virtue ethics, Protestant and Catholic natural law, early modern theology, and Catholic Social Thought. Prior to entering the academy, she worked as an attorney, in private equity, and as a campus minister for graduate students and faculty.

Ryan is the Director of the NY Office of Public and International Affairs for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is the President of the Religion Communicators Council

Paul is the Religion Initiative Director at Wheatley Institute. He is a leading expert on religious pluralism in society, including the role of pluralism in economics and business. Previously he was Assistant Dean at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

Elder David R. Marriott serves as an Area Seventy in the North America Northeast Area for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is a distinguished litigator with Latham & Watkins in New York City. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law and a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University School of Law.

Father Martin is a consultant to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications. He is an Jesuit priest, writer, editor-at-large of America magazine, and the founder of Outreach. He is a frequent commentator for CNN, NPR, Fox News, Channel, Time magazine, The Huffington Post, and other news outlets.

Dr. Miller was the founding Director of the Princeton Faith & Work Initiative, a Senior Professional Specialist in ethics, and a lecturer. Prior to academia, he was a senior executive in international finance in London. He advises C-suite executives on ethics and culture. He is the author of God at Work‍ and ‍The 5 Questions for Ethical Decisions; How to Succeed Without Selling Your Soul.

Dr. Mills is the first female and Jewish president of New York University. She is a licensed clinical social worker, attorney, academic and filmmaker. She is the founder of NYU’s Center on Violence and Recovery, and known for research on trauma, bias, and domestic violence that has shaped restorative justice programs nationwide.

Ashwin is a volunteer at BAPS Swaminarayan Skshardham in Robbinsville, New Jersey. He is a physician-economist and presently is the co-founder and CEO of Stealth. Previously he was with PyxHeath, an engagement company focused on the most vulnerable, hard-to-reach populations.

Rabbi Potasnik is the Executive Vice President of The New York Board of Rabbis, the largest interdenominational rabbinic body in the world, and co-founder and General Secretary of ICOR, the International Conference of Rabbis. He is the co-host along with the Reverend A.R. Bernard of “The Rev and The Rabbi”, a Sunday morning talk radio show. He is the Vice President of the Commission Of Religious Leaders NYC (CORL).

Kristin is the Managing Project Director at the Education Development Center (EDC) where she has over two decades of experience in research, instructional design, and program leadership. She co-leads EDC’s Young Mathematics program.

Rev. Richardson is the Pastor of the Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, New York. He is also Chairman of the Conference of National Black Churches, Chairman of the National Action Network, Chairman of Virginia Union University, and Board Member of Comcast and Pepsico. He has led the growth of his congregation to a weekly attendance of more than 4,000 people in three locations. He is author of “Witness to Grace.”

Rebecca is the Vice President of Higher Education Strategy for Interfaith America where she oversees higher education strategy and programs, supporting universities to become laboratories where students can deepen and challenge their own worldviews and collaborate across divides. Her work is inspired by her interfaith experiences living in Morocco and Jerusalem.

John Sexton is the former president of New York University from 2001 to 2015. He is presently a Professor of Law and dean emeritus of NYU Law School, having served as dean from 1988 through 2002. He received a BA in history and PhD in the history of American religion from Fordham University, and JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Dr. Siegel is a physician, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, author, and contributor to The Hill, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Fox News, and a member of the board of contributors at USA Today. He is the medical director of NYU’s Doctor Radio. He is the author of “The Miracles Among Us” and his forthcoming book, “The Angels Among Us.”

Susan is the director of operations and community engagement of the Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA (For-USA), and a member of the International Committee for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), for which she serves as a UN representative.

Elder Soares is a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Prior to being called as a general authority, he was an accountant and auditor for multinational corporations. Of Brazilian descent, his ministry has included leadership in Africa, Brazil and Central America.

Rev. Stahler is the Senior Pastor of Saint Peter’s Church in NYC. He is interested in the interface of religion and society, and pays particular attention to the voices and viewpoints of persons placed on the margins of church and society by those in power. He is an alumnus of Yale Divinity School and also holds a degree in Organ Performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Reid is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bountiful Financial, a faith-based investment firm. He was formerly Head of Innovative, Sustainable & Religious Indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices. He created of licensed indices now underlying more than $1 trillion in assets.

Haris is the Vice President of Policy and Programming at the Muslim Public Affairs Council. He served in multiple roles at the US Department of Homeland Security, including as senior policy advisor on immigration, civil rights, civil liberties, and national security. He was the Chief of Staff of Operation Allies Welcome, the largest US evacuation and refugee resettlement program in our nation’s history.

Guru Dileepji is an ordained interfaith minister, a Grand Master Yogi, Hindu Monk, and advocate for Universal Spirituality. He is the Global Chairman, Spiritual Head, and CEO of the World Yoga Community, an NGO affiliated with the United Nations. He serves as the Co-Chair of the Committee of Religious NGOs, Vice President of the UNSRC Salus Well-Being Network, and chairs the NGO committees on Yoga, Meditation, and Media at the United Nations.

Rev. Thorne is the Senior Pastor of The Riverside Church, the first African American woman to serve in the role. She incorporates art and creativity into all aspects of her life. Earlier in her life, she danced with Dance Theatre of Harlem and was a Radio City Rockette.

Rev. Varghese is the 12th Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. She is the first woman and person of color to hold this position. She is a co-founder and director of Enfleshing Witness: Rewilding Otherwise Preaching. This initiative supports Black, Indigenous and otherwise racially minoritized preachers in developing their preaching practices. She is a widely recognized leader in the Episcopal Church.

Rabbi Visotzky is a professor emeritus at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is a scholar of midrash and is the Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies, Emeritus at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

John is the Head of Global Equities & Thematic Indices, S&P Dow Jones Indices, where he leads the firm’s global equity, thematic and values-based index businesses. His work includes benchmarks reflecting diverse faith-based investment principles, including Shariah-compliant, Christian Values and Catholic Values indices.

Archbishop Williams served as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. He was the first in modern times appointed outside the Church of England. He previously held roles as Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales. He is an accomplished scholar and author, and serves as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Chancellor of the University of South Wales.

Dr. Wingate is an associate professor of computer science at Brigham Young University, where he works at the intersection of machine learning and social science. His research leverages large-scale language models, such as ChatGPT, to address pressing social problems like racism, conspiracy thinking, opinion manipulation, and political polarization.

Husein is the Executive Director of the Muslim Community Network (MCN). He is the first American-born child of Gambian Muslim immigrants, and his journey reflects resilience, empathy, and a deep belief in the transformative power of belonging and civic engagement.

Ms. Yunus is an attorney specializing in family based immigration, business immigration, and deportation defense before the U.S. Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals. She is passionate about interfaith community engagement, increasing diversity, and assisting the immigrant community at large.