Daniel Epstein is marketing and innovation consultant based in Toronto, Canada. He was previously a Harley Procter Marketing Director at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio where he was employed for 21 years. It was during his tenure at P&G that he conducted most of the Portraits In Faith interviews. He has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois and a BBA in Accounting from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Daniel has been long involved in community service focused on reconciliation and dialogue across racial, religious, and ethnic communities. Portraits In Faith is a perfect intersection of the great passions in Daniel’s life: helping others heal, bringing people of different faiths and cultures together, global travel, and photography. Daniel is blessed to be the husband of Heidi and step-father to Lucas and Theo.
Paul Eppinger
Dr. Paul Eppinger is a graduate of William Jewell College, Princeton Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology degree, and San Francisco Theological Seminary where he received a Doctor of Ministry degree. He has served as a missionary in Japan, the pastor of four different American Baptist Churches, as adjunct professor at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Kansas. He has served on numerous boards and committees for his denomination and in the communities in which he pastored. His last pastorate was at the First Baptist Church in Phoenix, which he served for seven-and-a-half years. He served as the Statewide Director of the successful “Victory Together” campaign in 1992 to establish a state Martin Luther King holiday. From 1993 to 2002, he served as the Executive Director of the Arizona Ecumenical Council, an organization uniting programs of 13 mainline and Roman Catholic denominations involving 700 churches and one million people. He then became the Executive Director of the Arizona Interfaith Movement in 2002. The Arizona Interfaith Movement is composed of 25 different major religious groups and seeks to bring understanding and respect of each other to all the major religions of the state and, thereby, to bring unity to all of the state of Arizona, the nation, and the world.
Margaret Ellsworth
Margaret Ellsworth is a writer, editor, and M.A. student at Claremont School of Theology, where she studies worship and the arts. She has written and edited worship resources for a variety of different situations and contexts. Her interests include literature and personal narrative, creative ritual, and interfaith family life – spurred by her own experience as one half of a Buddhist-Christian marriage. Margaret lives in southern California with her husband Drew. Follow her on Twitter @ResoluteMag or read her blog, Scribble Out Loud.
Duane Elgin
Duane Elgin is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and social visionary who looks beneath the surface turbulence of our times to explore the deeper trends that are transforming our world. In 2006, Duane received the International Goi Peace Award in Japan in recognition of his contribution to a global “vision, consciousness, and lifestyle” that fosters a “more sustainable and spiritual culture.”
In the early 1970s, worked as a senior staff member of a joint Presidential-Congressional Commission on the American Future looking ahead from 1970 to 2000. He then worked as a senior social scientist with the think-tank SRI International where he coauthored numerous studies of the long-range future. His books include: The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? (2009); Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future (2000), Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich (2010, 1993 and 1981), and Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness (1993). With Joseph Campbell and other scholars he co-authored the book Changing Images of Man (1982). In addition, Duane has contributed chapters to twenty-two books, and has published more than a hundred major articles and blog posts.
Over the past thirty years, Duane has co-founded three non-profit organizations working for media accountability, citizen empowerment, and a trans-partisan ‘community voice’ movement using the television airwaves legally owned by the public.
Maha Elgenaidi
Maha Elgenaidi is the founder and Executive Director of Islamic Networks Group (www.ing.org), a nonprofit organization with affiliates and partners around the country that are pursuing peace and countering all forms of bigotry through education and interfaith engagement, working within the framework of the First Amendment’s protection of religious freedom and pluralism. Maha received an M.A. in religious studies from Stanford University and B.A in political science and economics from the American University in Cairo. She has taught classes on Islam in the modern world at Santa Clara University, Stanford University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz, and has been recognized with numerous awards, including the “Civil Rights Leadership Award” from the California Association of Human Relations Organizations, the “Citizen of the Year Award” from the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, and the "Dorothy Irene Height Community Award" from the Silicon Valley Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Ramy Eletreby
Ramy Eletreby is a queer, Muslim, Egyptian-American theater artist, writer, and educator from Los Angeles, California. He was a contributing author to Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex and Intimacy (2014). Ramy holds an M.A. in Applied Theatre from the CUNY School of Professional Studies and believes theater is a powerful tool for social change, critical thinking, and dialogue. Ramy practices theater in community-based settings and has collaborated on theater projects both local and abroad. He has worked in prisons, schools, places of worship, riverbanks, forests, and other magical places where one would not expect to find theater.
Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Rabbi Amy Eilberg is the first woman ordained as a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. After many years of work in pastoral care, hospice and spiritual direction, Rabbi Eilberg now directs interfaith dialogue programs in the Twin Cities in Minnesota at the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning, and is adjunct faculty at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and St. Catherine University.