Assistant Director of Peacebuilding at the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

Janie is the Assistant Director of Peacebuilding at the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, an organization with international reach based in New York City, USA. Within the Peacebuilding Program, she works with the Peacemakers in Action Network, a community of practice for religiously motivated peace actors in conflict and post-conflict zones around the world. In this role, she finds ways to connect grassroots activists with one another, work collaboratively to elevate their stories, and establish opportunities for collective action. She's an executive producer for the Peacemakers in Action Podcast, a series of case studies about the religiously motivated peace actors in the Tanenbaum Peacemakers in Action Network. As a contributor to Tanenbaum resources, she believes in the power of storytelling and community building.

 

She received her BA (English and Religion) from the University of Georgia and her Masters in Peace and Justice Studies from the University of San Diego, where she was a Gandhi Fellow. Prior to her career in Peacebuilding, Janie participated in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Harlem, New York City where she worked with elementary school kids.

 

She is passionate about interreligious dialogue efforts within her own communities and is dedicated to peacebuilding in its many forms.