“She thought kindness was a survival skill, and, do you know what? She was right.” 

It's a celebration of the country’s unity and ideals, including the ideals that haven’t always been honored by the nation. The elephant in the background of the photo — the nation’s most enduring symbol of racism, an icon to the succession of 11 states — stands in ironic contradiction to this celebration of national unity.

A glimpse into our 2024 spring project with Essential Partners.

Most people know what it feels like to be left out of a school community. Maybe you were the last person selected in middle school kickball or perhaps you always sat alone in the high school cafeteria. Whatever it is, this feeling of loneliness or isolation is often the first step in what Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, the Executive Director of the International Interfaith Research Lab at Columbia Teachers College, calls “educational displacement.”

There are so many interactions that forever changed me, but there were two that I hold most deeply in my heart.

Interfaith Photovoice founder and director Roman Williams had the privilege to attend the conference from June 5-6th on the Tri-Faith Commons in Omaha and to share on how photovoice can be used to meet the multi-faced needs of our religiously and racially diverse communities.

Our partner’s name on this contest, Interfaith America, is emblematic of the photos we received and of the photos that we celebrate as winners. The holidays represented in the winning pictures come from a variety of faith traditions, including the Hindu, Christian, and Islamic traditions, and several of the photographers do not come from the religions represented in their photos.

Join us on Tuesday, June 25th from 1:00 to 2:00 PM EDT for our online showcase exhibit from our Spring 2024 training group.

The path to pluralism requires humility. I learned this the old fashioned way: by failing.

We’re excited to announce a new collaboration with the Fetzer Institute that will explore the ways religion, faith and spirituality show up in everyday life. It’s called Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life.

The introduction of photovoice for interreligious engagement was an important step for enhancing worldview inclusivity at Dartmouth and raising awareness of avenues for improvement in terms of interfaith engagement.

“It becomes very troubling sometimes to try to figure that out. But there are places like Interfaith Photovoice that I feel that I can really belong without fear or rejection.”

“These students are creating a work of visual sociology,” said Roman Williams, founder and director of Interfaith Photovoice. “Their images are research, documentaries, working to provide a voice to their religious, secular or spiritual identities.”

“The Interfaith Photovoice project helped open my worldview.”

The project was designed to strengthen relationships on campus, create a sense of solidarity and belonging among the participating students, raise awareness of experiential differences on campus, and instigate change.

Our polarization is one of the few things Americans seem to agree on…That’s why the work of Braver Angels, an organization dedicated to reducing political polarization in America, is work that meets the moment.

If you are a teenager curious about what life is like across the United States and have a smartphone or camera, we have an opportunity for you!

Katie Lenhart, College Photographer at Dartmouth College, reflects at the opening of the photo gallery on the learning she witnessed in the group meetings at the first Interfaith Photovoice project on Dartmouth's campus with The William Jewett Tucker Center.

“It’s a different experience to get used to a campus where I’m seeing something that conflicts with my worldview and to just say ‘people have their own experiences, I have my own preferences and to learn to co-exist with that,.”

We are excited to begin our search for the Diversity, Dialogue, & Interfaith Engagement Internship! We will be taking on several internships for the upcoming Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 academic year.