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Across Boundaries Multifaith Institute Participants Board of Directors Wanda Romer Taylor Chair, Secretary Robert Chodos Vice-Chair, Treasurer Louis B. Gascon Director Perwaiz Hayat Director William Ryan SJ Director Thupten Jinpa Director Steering Committee Bob Chodos Managing Editor, Voices Across Boundaries Ginny Freeman MacOwan Editor, Vox Feminarum; Associate Editor, Voices Across Boundaries Wanda Romer Taylor Editor, Voices Across Boundaries Gail van Varseveld Coordinator, Production & Website Advisory Council Gregory Baum Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, McGill University; editor of The Ecumenist since 1962; member of the editorial board, Relations; his most recent books are Karl Polanyi on Ethics and Economics; Le nationalisme: perspectives éthiques et religieuses Louisa Blair Writer, translator; former associate editor, Compass magazine; former Quebec editor, Canadian Forum; regular writer for Catholic New Times and Canadian Family Physician; currently writing a book on the history of English-Speaking Quebec Robert Corman Founder/president, National Partnership for Social Enterprise consulting firm, Morristown, NJ; vice-president, Applied Concepts consulting firm; former Executive Director, Gallup International Institute; former Executive Director, The Fund for New Jersey; Trustee, Princeton Center for Leadership Training; Trustee, Global Kids, NY Dolly Dastoor Clinical psychologist; Co-Director, Program in Dementia, Division of Gerontopsychiatry, Douglas Hospital; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University, specializing in dementia; former president, Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America; Governor, District 2, Zonta International (organization promoting status of women) Parin Dossa Associate Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University; studies anthropology of diaspora and migration with a focus on gender, aging, mental health and disability among Muslim minorities in Canada; member, Advisory Circle, Vox Feminarum David Eley SJ Assistant to the Provincial for Social and International Ministries; former President, Campion College, University of Regina; former director, Loyola Peace Institute, Montreal; former director, Jesuit Communication Project, Toronto; former chair, Publishing Policy Committee, Compass magazine John Fraser Master, Massey College, University of Toronto; former editor, Saturday Night magazine; award-winning journalist and author; his publications include Eminent Canadians: Candid Tales from Then and Now Perwaiz Hayat Lecturer in the Department of Religion, Concordia University; active in Montreal's Pakistani community and in Muslim-Jewish Dialogue; former member of the editorial board, Hikmat magazine, a quarterly of the Ismaili community of Canada; coordinator, "Islam and the Challenge of the New Millennium" conference, organized by the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, in collaboration with Muslim communities of Canada Victor Sogen Hori Associate Professor of Japanese Religions, McGill University Sonali Teresa Karnick Journalist for CBC Radio; active within the Catholic and Hindu communities of Montreal; writer and narrator of Three Weddings, a radio documentary on how her Hindu father and Catholic mother fought adversity to be together Rabbi Leigh Lerner Rabbi, Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom, Montreal; President, Canadian Region, Central Conference of American Rabbis; member of the Board of Directors, League of Human Rights in Montreal Barry Levy Professor, Biblical and Jewish Studies; Dean, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University Prakash Mody Jain representative for the Ontario Multifaith Council on Spiritual and Religious Care; involved in Jain work on national and international levels Farhang Rajaee Associate Professor of Political Science and Humanities, Carleton University; his publications include Globalization on Trial: The Human Condition and the Information Civilization Bahija Réghai Human rights activist; Vice-President, Arab Canadian Women's Association (ACWA); former community development consultant; former Program Officer, United Nations Fund for Population Activities, Morocco William Ryan SJ Economist; former general secretary, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops; former Jesuit provincial in English Canada; founding director, Center of Concern, Washington, D.C.; founder and former contributing editor, Compass magazine; his publications include Culture, Spirituality, and Economic Development: Opening a Dialogue and The Clergy and Economic Growth in Quebec David Seljak Associate Professor, St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, Ontario; Director, St. Jerome's Centre for Catholic Experience. Bernard Shapiro Ethics Commissioner, House of Commons, Ottawa; Emeritus Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University; former Ontario Deputy Minister of Education and Deputy Minister of Colleges and Universities; former Director, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto; former Provost, University of Western Ontario; past president, Social Science Federation of Canada Arvind Sharma Birks Professor of Comparative Religion, McGill University; his publications include A Jaina Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion; A Hindu Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion; The Philosophy of Religion: A Buddhist Perspective Manjit Singh Instructor on Sikhism, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University; honorary chaplain for Sikh students at Concordia and McGill universities; past president, World Conference on Religion and Peace -- Canada; founding director, Canadian Sikh Council; former adviser to federal Treasury Board president on the civil service, and to RCMP commissioner on employment equity program; more than 30 years corporate experience in Canadian marketing and sales management Charles Taylor Board of Trustees Professor of Philosophy and Law, Northwestern University; Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University; former Chichele Chair, Social and Political Theory, Oxford University; participant in biennial seminars on contemporary thought and culture hosted by Pope John Paul II; his publications include Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity; Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition; The Ethics of Authenticity John Thomson Publisher, Canadian Geographic magazine, Ottawa; chair, public affairs committee, Canadian Magazine Publishers Association Thupten Jinpa President, Institute of Tibetan Classics; principal English translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama; his publications include Tibetan Songs of Spiritual Experience; Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Thought: Tsongkhapa's Quest for the Middle View Very Rev. Hon. Lois M. Wilson Canadian Senator; first woman moderator of the United Church of Canada; first Canadian president of the World Council of Churches; worked on the Ontario Human Rights Commission and at the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development; international consultant, International Interfaith Centre, Oxford, England; member, Advisory Circle, Vox Feminarum Marion Woodman Jungian analyst in practice in Toronto; internationally known as a teacher, lecturer and workshop leader; her publications include Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride; The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation; Conscious Femininity; Bone: Dying into Life ACROSS BOUNDARIES MULTIFAITH INSTITUTE P.O. Box 437, Station A, Toronto, ON M5W 1C2 Phone: 416-850-3598 E-mail: info@acrossboundaries.net Website design by Gail van Varseveld Content © Across Boundaries Multifaith Institute