Room: Erie
presented by Cassie Meyer, Outreach Education & Training Coordinator, Interfaith Youth Core
Noah Silverman, Curriculum and Product Development Coordinator, Interfaith Youth Core
Young people from different religious backgrounds are coming into contact with one another with increasing frequency. This interaction tends in one of two directions: conflict or cooperation. Cassie Meyer and Noah Silverman will introduce Interfaith Youth Core’s unique shared-values and service learning approach to building cooperation across religious differences through video and discussion; the workshop will feature the stories of the dynamic young people who are leading this work, explore Interfaith Youth Core’s “Sacred Stories” curriculum, and discuss how this work is relevant to the classroom.
Cassie Meyer, Outreach Education & Training Coordinator, Interfaith Youth Core
Cassie completed her master's degree at the University of Chicago Divinity School in June, 2005, where her work focused on social justice movements in modern American religion; she co-teaches “Interfaith Action in the World” with Dr Eboo Patel at Chicago Theological Seminary and regularly travels around the country to lead trainings on interfaith youth service work. Cassie serves on the Community Renewal Society’s Associate Board and is the Youth Voices editor for Interreligious Insight.
Noah Silverman, Curriculum and Product Development Coordinator, Interfaith Youth Core
Noah frequently travels around the United States speaking about the importance of cooperation among religiously diverse young people and leads trainings in the “how-to” of interfaith youth organizing. He managed the 2006 Days of Interfaith Youth Service Campaign, organized the 4th National Conference on Interfaith Youth Work, and co-taught a course on Interfaith Peace-Building in DePaul University’s Peace Studies Department. He received his B.A. in Religious Studies and International Relations from Connecticut College in 2004, where he wrote his thesis on inter-religious peace-building in Israel/Palestine. He has interned for the World Conference of Religions for Peace at the United Nations, the Interfaith Encounter Association in Jerusalem and the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago.
