The 2024 festival theme
Compassion through Action: Engaging with a spirit of Hope and Peace
Festival leadership
Honorary Co-Chairs
Aasees Kaur
Rev. Dr. Jim Newby
The Very Rev. Owen C. Thompson
Deborah Vance Ph.D.
Steve Vance
FESTIVAL PLANNING COMMITTEE
Jan Armstrong Cobb
Afreen Asif
Bekky Baker
Mary Anne Bressler
Dr. James Buchanan
Jake Campbell
Mimi Chamberlin
Cynthia Cummins
Teresa Davis
Becca Desai
Sandra Driggins-Smith
Lauren Goldberg
Michael Hawkins
Adam Hayden
Rev. Dr. John Ivey
Miriam Jackobs
Rabbi Meredith Kahan
Sandy Kaltman
Danya Karram
Aasees Kaur
Rumana Khan
Justin Kirschner
Aruni Marapane
Karen Martin
Minda Matthews-Smith
Alycia McClurg
Andrew Musgrave
Rev. Dr. Jim Newby
Saira Noor
John O’Keefe, Ph.D.
Maliha Omar
Penny Pensak
Sr. Christine Pratt, OSU
Terrie Puckett
Riz Raj
Lisa Rosner
Amy Rubenstein
Rabbi Samantha Schapera
Zeinab Schwen
Samantha Searls
Bruce Seidel
Jan Seidel
Sandhya Shenai
Rev. Melanie Slane
Jeremy Spiegel
Nalini Tandon
Joey Taylor
Shaheen Toor
Deborah Vance. Ph.D.
Steve Vance
Autumn Wheeler
Rabbi Gary Zola, Ph.D.
Faith communities represented in EquaSion’s Cincinnati Festival of Faiths since its first year (2018)
Baha’i
Buddhism
Christianity
African American Episcopal (AME)
African American Episcopal Zion (AME Zion)
Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME)
Church of Christ, Scientist
Disciples of Christ
Eastern Orthodox
Episcopal/Anglican
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
Friends/Quakers
Maronite Catholic
Mennonite
National Baptist Convention
Non-Denominational
Presbyterian
Roman Catholic
Swedenborgian
Syro-Malabar Catholic
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
United Church of Christ
United Methodist
Center for Spiritual Living
Church of Scientology
Hinduism
Indigenous/Native American
Islam
Jainism
Judaism
New Thought Unity
Paganism
Rastafarianism
Sikhism
Unitarian Universalism
Zoroastrianism