Melissa Camba-Kelsay is assistant director of student life for multicultural programs at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. For three years, ending in December 2004, Wheaton received a Hewlett Foundation “Pluralism and Unity” grant totaling $150,000 to offer courses and work with the community to teach understanding of diversity and multiculturalism.

Pelonomi Khumoetsile-Taylor is director of diversity and inclusion at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Mass. She wrote “Access to Higher Education for African Americans.”

Peter Laurence is executive director of the Education as Transformation program at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. The program works with educational institutions that are considering the impact of religious diversity and the role of spirituality in education.

The Rev. Paul Sorrentino is coordinator for religious life at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. His doctoral work at Princeton Theological Seminary focused on religious pluralism in the academy and included a survey of Amherst students regarding their views on religious pluralism. While he advises the Christian Fellowship at Amherst, Sorrentino writes that “we respond best to religious plurality […]

Read a May 2, 2013 New York Times article about the growth in activity and popularity for religious students at universities.

Read a Nov. 30, 2003, Boston Globe article about the rising profile of Christian evangelical groups at liberal colleges in the Northeast.

Art Green is professor emeritus of religion at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He is an expert in Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah.

Rabbi Daniel Judson leads Temple Beth David of the South Shore in Canton, Mass., which has a spirituality program that “explores prayer and ritual through a prism of meditation, movement, creative writing and other forms of personal expression that bring the wonder, joy and richness of Judaism into our lives.” He is co-editor of The […]

Rabbi Elaine Zecher is a rabbi at Temple Israel in Boston, where she has developed spiritual programs including a service for the healing of the soul, Women’s Kallah and Learner’s Minyan. She also works with Synagogue 3000 and is a partner in the Kalsman Institute, which focuses on healing and health. Contact through her assistant, Laurena Rosenberg.