This panel will feature a conversation between four leading scholars who will share their perspectives on leading faith communities during a pandemic and at a time when our country is awakening to the realities of racial inequality, challenges which are changing the nature of academic scholarship, religious life, and women’s leadership.
Panel
Maharat Rori Picker Neiss
Executive Director, Jewish Community Relations Council of St Louis
Dr. Mehnaz Afridi
Director of the Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center, Manhattan College
Dr. C. Vanessa White
Assistant Professor of Spirituality and Ministry, Catholic Theological Union
Reverend Dr. Nicole Martin
Professor of Ministry and Leadership Development at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary
Moderator
Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich
Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies, Director of Catholic-Jewish Studies, Catholic Theological Union