Conference Speakers

Yasser Aman
President/CEO, University Muslim Medical Association (UMMA) Free Clinic, Los Angeles, CA

R. Scott Appleby, Ph.D.
Professor of History, John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana

Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman
Executive Director, Rabbis for Human Rights, Israel

His Eminence Dr. Mustafa Ceric
Grand Mufti of Bosnia Herzegovina

Melodye Feldman, M.S.W.
Fouding Executive Director, Seeking Common Ground, Denver, CO

Stephanie Fingeroth
Associate Director of Education and Outreach, American Jewish World Service, New York, NY

Rabbi Reuven Firestone, Ph.D.
Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, CA

Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Ph.D.
President, Jewish Life Network, New York, NY

Sr. Filo Shizue Hirota, M.M.B.
Board member, Catholic Council for Justice and Peace of the Episcopal Conference, Japan

Samah Jabr, M.D.
Bethlehem Psychiatric Hospital, Palestinian Authority

Fr. Michael Kennedy
Dolores Mission Los Angeles

Fr. Michael Lapsley, S.S.M.
Director, Institute for Healing of Memories, South Africa

Prof. Mohamed Fathi Osman, Ph.D.
Scholar in Residence, Institute for the Study of the Role of Islam in the Contemporary World, Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Naim Shah, Jr., C.P.A.
Co-Founder, ILM Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Prof. Charles M. Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada