The 2026 festival theme
Compassion Through Action: Unity in Diversity
2026 Festival leadership
Program Managers
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.
Karen Martin
Karen Martin, M.Ed. is a retired Pre-K-12 public, parochial and independent school educator. She has participated with the Cincinnati Festival of Faiths Steering Committee since its inaugural event in 2018 and has co-chaired the Spiritual Meditations and the Peace Walk Committees.
Karen is active in social justice issues and interfaith collaboration. She is an Associate of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati and serves on the Congregational Visioning Task Force Committee, the Earth Justice Circle and Peace and Nonviolence Justice Circle. She worships at Xavier University Bellarmine Chapel in Cincinnati and works on the parish Dismantling Racism Team. Karen is a MARCC Council Delegate supporting interfaith interaction addressing social justice issues in the Cincinnati metropolitan area. She is a horticulture volunteer at the Cincinnati Zoo enhancing her concern for the care of all creation.
Festival Planning Commitee
Aasees Kaur
Acharya Kailash
Adam Hayden
Ahmad Munir
Alycia McClurg
Amber Hassan
Amy Rubenstein
Andrew Musgrave
Becca Desai
Bekky Baker
Brian Adams
Bruce Seidel
Chip Harrod
Christine Pratt
Danielle Steward
Deborah Rose
Deborah Vance
Deidre Hazelbaker
Dianne Butler
Dr. Gary P. Zola
Elif Yildirim
Eric George Tauber
Freeman McNeal
Ginny Lipke
Goksel Kucukkaya
Jake Campbell
Jan Armstrong Cobb
Janice Seidel
Jeremy Spiegel
Joey Taylor
Joseph R. Henry
Karen Martin
Maliha Omar
Mary Anne Bressler
Michael Roman
Mike Hawkins
Miriam Jackobs
Mollie Newman
Nadya Ellerhorst
Rajni Harsh
Rumana Khan
Saira Noor
Sam Schapera
Sandy Kaltman
Shahnaz Hassan
Soumya Paul
Steve Vance
Terrie Puckett
Theresa Jones
Tiffany Cox
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