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CASSIE MEYER, Outreach Education and Training Director

Cassie completed her Master’s Degree at the University of Chicago Divinity School where her work focused on social justice movements in American Christianity.  She has co-taught multiple courses with Dr. Eboo Patel on interfaith leadership and interfaith action at Chicago Theological Seminary and McCormick Theological Seminary, where she is adjunct faculty.  As Director of Outreach Education and Training, Cassie leads a team of religiously diverse trainers who reached 22,000 people during the 2007-2008 school year on college campuses, faith communities and civic organizations around the country and the world.  With IFYC since 2005, Cassie regularly gives talks and trainings at seminaries and campuses on the importance of religious pluralism, and is also the Youth Voices Editor for Interreligious Insight.  A progressive evangelical shaped by her work with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship as an undergraduate at Lawrence University, Cassie is a member and lay leader of Holy Covenant United Methodist Church in Chicago, where she chairs the church’s Green Committee and is a part of its Strategy Team.

JENAN MOHAJIR, Outreach Education and Training Associate

Jenan Mohajir has been extensively involved with the Muslim community through several grassroots initiatives in Chicago. She currently serves as the program associate for the Outreach Education & Training program at the Interfaith Youth Core, where her primary focus is on building relationships between the Muslim community and the Interfaith Youth Movement. Jenan also frequently speaks at various college campuses nationally regarding the importance of interfaith cooperation among young people, in addition to training youth leaders in organizing local interfaith youth service-learning events.Prior to joining IFYC, Jenan was a full-time teacher at the Universal Muslim Day School, a private institution serving primarily Arab Muslim students. She worked with the Inner-city Muslim Action Network as their coordinator for the Pillars of IMAN youth program and has also been volunteering with the Nawawi Foundation since 2001. She received her Bachelor’s in Elementary Education from DePaul University in 2002 with a concentration in Islamic Studies. Jenan is originally from India and grew up in Qatar and the United States