The Pluralism Project at Harvard University

Najira Ahmed is a rising senior at Wellesley College where she is pursuing a BA in Religion and a minor in Biological Sciences. Her academic interests include pluralism in South Asia and the U.S., as well as microbiology. She is an active member of the Multifaith Council at Wellesley, and was selected to attend Interfaith Youth Core's Leadership Institute in Washington DC. Najira will be conducting fieldwork on the religious landscape of New York City.

Aaron Lerner is a rising senior at the University of Washington where he is earning a BA in Comparative Religion and History. During his junior year, Aaron studied abroad in Istanbul, Turkey. He has been and is currently involved in several interfaith organizations in the Bay area and on-campus where he founded Bridges: UW’s Interfaith Council. This summer Aaron will be conducting fieldwork on the religious landscape of San Francisco.

Io Montecillo is a fourth-year undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Plan II Honors in Liberal Arts Program and is also majoring in Religious Studies with a concentration in Religion in the Americas. At the University of Texas, Io has assisted in research projects on the Cristeros Rebellion and Mexican American Catholic History, and has worked as an intern at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. This summer Io will be conducting field research on the religious landscape of Washington D.C.

Crystal Alburger is a Master of Divinity candidate at Harvard Divinity School, on the ordination track to become a Unitarian Universalist minister. As a Spiritual Activist Fellow with the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry from 2011 to 2012, she lobbied for the Human Right to Water and advocated for immigration reform. Since its inception in 2011, she has also been a contributing writer for the Humanist Community Project and seeks to encourage conversation among interfaith, Humanist, and Unitarian Universalist movements. Crystal participated in the “Building an Interfaith Leadership Seminar” and will be assisting with follow up research for the Seminar and for On Common Ground: World Religions in America.