This website seeks too provide useful and thought-provoking insights about progressive faith-based community organizing. The finding presented hope to offer a critical analysis of the work in the 21st century United States so that people of faith and organizers may be even more effective in their actions for social transformation.
About the author…
Kristina Meyer was raised in Richmond, VA and graduated from Elon University with a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and a minor in Mathematics in 2019. At Elon, she was part of the Honors Fellows Program, Periclean Scholars Program, and the inaugural cohort of the Multifaith Scholars Program. These programs provided the structure and funds for her to explore how faith commitments influence social justice work. Kristina has also been involved with the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, with both Christian and interfaith initiatives, exploring her own faith and supporting the spirituality of others. While college provided necessary theoretical and theological frameworks, she plans to go to seminary to become a chaplain, seeing herself as a bridge-builder within a polarized nation that dehumanizes each other. She also loves ballroom dancing and can’t do a handstand.
Methods
The findings presented on this website were part of a 3-year project that involved participant-observation (June-July 2018) at the national office of Interfaith Worker Justice and local affiliates and interviews with staff, board members, local clergy, and volunteers. Though also grounded in historical and philosophical literature, the ethnographic research provided insights into how IWJ functions and impacts the community. (IWJ, Chicago; Memphis, Madison, Boston)
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