Staff

Joshua Stanton is a Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ and a Schusterman Rabbinical Fellow at Hebrew Union College. He is also a founding co-Director of Lessons of a Lifetime™, a nursing home-based project designed to improve intergenerational relations. A graduate of Amherst College, he is the recipient of numerous leadership awards, including the Bridge-Builders Leadership Award from the Interfaith Youth Core. You can follow his blogs on the Tikkun Daily and Huffington Post.

Stephanie Hughes is a Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ and a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, where she earned her Master's in Church History in 2008 and her STM in 2009. A former schoolteacher, Stephanie received the Most Promising New Teacher of the Year Award of 2005 in St. Louis, Missouri. She is an accomplished playwright with two plays produced at the St. Louis  Repertory Theatre. At Union, she served as Student Senate Co-Chair and on the Columbia University Senate.

Stephen Butler Murray is the Managing Editor of The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™. He also works both as a college chaplain and professor at Endicott College and senior pastor at the First Baptist Church of Boston. He has a PhD in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary and a MDiv from the Yale School of Divinity. He is co-editor of Crossing by Faith: Sermons on the Journey from Youth to Adulthood. His work is increasingly focused on Christian theological approaches to inter-religious work.

Aimee Upjohn Light is the Executive Editor of The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ and Assistant Professor of Theology at Duquesne University. She holds a PhD from Yale University in the philosophy of religion and an MA from Notre Dame in systematic theology. With quite a list of publications and two forthcoming books, one might imagine that she would solely engaged in editing! But because of her experience as a leader, she will be chairing the Journal's Department of Outreach and Development.

Matthew Dougherty is the Publishing Editor of The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™. He grew up in Connecticut and went on to attend Amherst College. During his time there, Matthew worked as a teacher and a sexual assault crisis counselor. He also helped lead the Amherst College Multifaith Council. After writing a senior thesis on American Islam and pluralism, he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Religion and English. He will be starting his graduate work at Harvard Divinity School this fall.

Marinus Iwuchukwu is the International Outreach Editor of The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ and Assistant Professor of Theology at Duquesne University. Former Chairman of the Communications Commission of the Diocese of Kano, he brings with him remarkable experience in media relations and outreach. Marinus served as Founding Editor of The Northern Star Newspaper and has taught at the Federal College of Education and St. Thomas Seminary in Kano, as well as Marquette University in Wisconsin.

Jason Levine is the Development Editor of The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ and a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College. A student of two disciplines, he graduated from Cornell University with majors in Neurobiology & Behavior and Near Eastern Studies. He hopes to stay up to date on work taking place in each field. Since graduating he has worked for the Hillel Foundation at the University of Illinios, Urbana-Champaign, as well as Temple Emanu El and The Temple Tifereth Israel in Cleveland, Ohio.

Kate Fridkis is interViews Editor for The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™. She recently received an MA in Religion at Columbia University.  Her research focuses on intersections of religion, secularism, and gender.  She is also a lay cantor at Congregation Kehilat Shalom in central New Jersey.  She graduated summa cum laude from Douglass College, Rutgers University with a BA in Religion. Kate has written several novels and is enjoying the opportunity to continue with her literary and academic pursuits.

Tyler Zoanni is Associate Publishing Editor of The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™. He was born and raised in rural Montana. He attended the University of Chicago, from which he graduated with honors and Phi Beta Kappa. While an undergraduate, he co-founded and led a student interfaith group and was a member of the Interfaith Youth Core's Fellows Alliance. Tyler is currently in the M.Div. program at Harvard Divinity School, after serving a year in Lutheran Volunteer Corps.