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About the Panelists:
Christine Krieger | Panelist
Christine Krieger leads the ICJS Fellowship for Congregations, which brings Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities in Greater Baltimore together for interreligious learning, dialogue, and relationship-building. Before joining ICJS in 2021, she spent over a decade in higher education, most recently directing the first-year experience at Goucher College. She holds degrees from McDaniel College and Sarah Lawrence College.
The Rev. Dr. Alisha Wimbush | Panelist
The Rev. Dr. Alisha Wimbush is passionate about building bridges across diverse communities and fostering meaningful relationships. As Program Director for Religious Leaders, she oversees ICJS programming for clergy, chaplains, and spiritual caregivers. Under her leadership, ICJS launched its chaplain outreach initiative following a statewide survey—conducted in partnership with the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab—that identified chaplains as an underserved sector. She also leads Common Ground: Clergy | Conversation | Connections, a statewide program that brings together religiously diverse clergy to build lasting relationships through quarterly conversations over the span of a year.
Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D. | Moderator
Heather Miller Rubens, Ph.D. is the ICJS executive director and Roman Catholic scholar. She is an experienced teacher, public speaker, facilitator, and scholar-practitioner of interreligious learning and dialogue. She develops educational initiatives that foster interreligious learning and conversation for the public in the Baltimore-Washington corridor and online. In her research and writing Heather creatively focuses on the theoretical, theological, ethical, and political implications of affirming religious diversity and building an interreligious society.