Helene Ijaz, Ph.D., is a consultant and mediator in the areas of cross-cultural, interracial and interfaith relations. She has worked in the areas of multiculturalism and antiracism at the school board, university and provincial levels and has lectured and written on a variety of related topics, with a special emphasis on interreligious marriage, drawing on her experience as a Roman Catholic, who has been married to a Muslim for close to 50 years.
Husna Ibrahim
Husna Ibrahim is a student at the University of Minnesota. She serves as the secretary of the University’s Multi-Faith Student Council. She has had an interest for learning about other faiths from a young age. Having grown up in a household that really valued faith and tradition, she is very interested in exploring both her own faith journey and the faith journey of others. Ibrahim is a Muslim, and the holy book that she follows speaks of the same prophets that the other Abrahamic faiths, Judaism and Christianity, have. She sees interfaith dialogue as a way to get to know her fellow college students on a different level that is important and fascinating to them. She finds spirituality an incredible topic of conversation, especially in interfaith dialogues, and a great way to gain different perspectives from people.