The BRIJ Team
Over the past few years, we have built a team of college students, recent graduates, professors, and chaplains. Our diverse team brings together a wealth of experiences, knowledge of religious history and practice, community engagement, and personal commitments to justice and education.
Over the past few years, we have built a team of college students, recent graduates, professors, and chaplains. Our diverse team brings together a wealth of experiences, knowledge of religious history and practice, community engagement, and personal commitments to justice and education.
The People that Make BRIJ Possible
Our Team
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Curriculum Advisory Board
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Paul E. Nahme (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is the Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. His areas of interest are modern Jewish thought, German-Jewish cultural and intellectual history, modern Rabbinic thought, French post-structuralism, theories of affect and emotion, and critical race theory. His research focuses on the relationships between identity, affect, race, religion, anti-Semitism, and nationalism. |
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Dr. Walker teaches First Amendment law and human rights at Rutgers University and serves as the co-principal investigator with Dr. W. Y. Alice Chan of the Moral Imagination Community. In service to the field, he works as the associate editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal, Religion & Education, as an advisor to the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and on the boards of Abolitionist Sanctuary, Public Religion Research Institute, and Utah 3Rs Project. He serves as a member of the American Academy of Religion’s Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion and served on the writing team of the Religious Studies Companion Document for the C3 Framework for the National Council for the Social Studies |
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The Reverend Janet M. Cooper Nelson is Chaplain of the University,
Director of the Office of Chaplains and Religious Life and faculty
member at Brown University, appointed in 1990 after appointments at
Vassar College, Mount Holyoke College, and The Church of Christ at
Dartmouth College. As Brown’s Chaplain she leads a multi-faith team of
Associate chaplains and oversees the University’s broad circle of
Religious Life affiliates who advise student religious organizations. She earned degrees at Wellesley College, Tufts University, and Harvard Divinity School as well as serving on the Divinity School’s Visiting Committee and Leadership Council. |
Board of Directors
Ilana Brandes- Krug
Junaid Malik
Becki Marcus
Omair Ali
Ruban Hussain
Jeanelle Wheeler
Junaid Malik
Becki Marcus
Omair Ali
Ruban Hussain
Jeanelle Wheeler
Past Partnerships | Partners in Peace
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Cherishing the magic of Oz and the warm and eclectic community of her hometown, Andrea was raised in Lawrence, Kansas and stayed to receive her BA and MA from the University of Kansas. Her graduate research was on the impact of gender and ethnicity on identity construction. After graduate school, Andrea lived in Jerusalem for a year, where she coordinated a Jewish feminist project and managed a tutoring program for Ethiopian immigrants. Since arriving in Providence in 1999, Andrea has taught in the Education Department of Rhode Island College, volunteered in the Providence public school system and coordinated a youth philanthropy program. Andrea, together with her students and colleagues at JCDSRI, spends her days building community, documenting discoveries, experiencing great joy, and practicing kavod, (respect), hesed (kindness), and shalom (peace). She has an extensive snow-globe collection and regularly perpetrates acts of “guerilla gardening.” Andrea lives in Providence with her husband, Steve Jacobson, and two daughters. |
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Adam is an experienced educator and was the Chair of the Middle School Jewish Studies Department at Rodeph Sholom School in Manhattan. He holds a B.A. from Emory University and an M.A. from Brooklyn College, has been a participant in several selective educational leadership programs, including the Pardes Educators Program and the Day School Leadership Training Institute, and received the Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. He served as the head of the Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island. Since arriving in Providence in 1999, |