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About the Participants
Miranda Hovemeyer
Miranda Hovemeyer is a Humanist Chaplain with the Humanist Community at American University and Administrative Director of the Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington, D.C., which supports families navigating multiple religious and nonreligious identities. Her work focuses on creating spaces of belonging for people who are nonreligious or spiritual but not religious and on fostering more inclusive interfaith communities. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Colorado State University and an M.A. in Religion from Meadville Lombard Theological School at the University of Chicago.
Val Twanmoh
Val Twanmoh recently retired from her position as the Senior Advisor for Advocacy and Policy at Catholic Charities of Baltimore, where she advocated for people experiencing homelessness, people with developmental disabilities, low-income seniors, families struggling to escape poverty, and others in need of social services. For over nine years, she served as the director of the Esperanza Center, a program of Catholic Charities that offers comprehensive legal, health, and other services to members of the immigrant community. She has decades of experience as a trial attorney, as staff for Senator Barbara Mikulski, and as an advocate and activist in the non-profit sector.
Molly Silverstein
Molly Silverstein serves as Program Director for Nonprofit and Civic Professionals at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS). She brings a decade of experience spanning nonprofits, higher education, publishing, mental health, and museum administration. She graduated with a B.A. from Kenyon College and a MDiv from Harvard Divinity School, where she studied end-of-life care, interreligious chaplaincy, and the psychology of religion. She has served as a counselor, educator, chaplain, and facilitator for a range of communities, from individuals navigating mental illness, to Harvard undergraduates and people living with dementia. She is hopeful about the imaginative possibility of interreligious work, and excited about building relationships that honor complexity and value difference.