Program Director for Nonprofit and Civic Professionals
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.