Promoting Religious Pluralism

Speaker: 
David Fraccaro
 
04 Mar 2010
 
7:30 PM
 
South Ballroom, Memorial Union

David Fraccaro has worked in the United States and abroad on issues related to human rights, conflict resolution and interfaith collaboration. He currently works with the Stranger to Neighbor initiative sponsored by the Interfaith Youth Core of Chicago. It seeks to strengthen relationships between diverse communities of faith and their immigrant and refugee neighbors. He has also worked with detained immigrants and asylum seekers as a coordinator for the Sojourners visitation program in New York City, the program that inspired the movie The Visitor. Fraccaro has served such organizations as the National Council of Churches, United Caring Shelters, the UCC Council of American Indian Ministries, and No More Deaths on the Arizona-Mexico border. He is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University.