The 2025 festival theme
Compassion through action: standing together for the greater good
Main
Exhibition
Xavier University's Cintas Center
2025 Festival leadership
Alycia McClurg
Alycia McClurg is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She serves as Assistant Director of Communication for the Ohio Cincinnati Coordinating Council and as an organist for the church. She has been involved with the Festival of Faiths since its inaugural year, first as an exhibitor and subsequently as co-chair of the music/entertainment committee. She is also a member of the Women’s Interfaith Network of Cincinnati. Alycia is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree in Administrative management. Alycia is a native New Yorker who has lived in Cincinnati since 1997. When not busy with interfaith work, she is a busy amateur musician, playing in several musical groups and in pit orchestras for community theater groups throughout the area.
Andrew Musgrave
Andrew Musgrave has served as the Director of the Catholic Social Action Office for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati since 2019. The CSA Office empowers Catholics to celebrate the Gospel call for life, human dignity, and care for creation. In addition to work on multiple matters of justice, the CSA office works on rural life, ecumenical and interfaith projects, faithful citizenship, and global solidarity. Andrew earned his B.A. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame and his M.A. in Public Service & Nonprofit Management from Marquette University, and he is a proud husband to
Ana – a hospice social worker – and father to Layla (17) and Juliet (10). Prior to coming to Cincinnati, he worked in Milwaukee for 15 years, both in the nonprofit and faith sectors. He has focused his career on community building, food systems, education, social services, housing, and community organizing, and his passions include racial justice, immigration advocacy, interfaith collaboration, and caring for God’s creation.
2024 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