Mary Ellen Giess is Chief Program Officer at Interfaith America, overseeing strategy, alignment, and integration across IA’s programming. Mary Ellen has served in various programmatic and strategic roles since joining IA in 2008, including managing our program partnership with the Obama White House, stewarding our five-year research partnership (IDEALS), and co-editing Educating about Religious Diversity: A Handbook for Student Affairs. She joined us after completing her Masters at Harvard Divinity School and earned her B.A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (go Heels!). Mary Ellen’s on-campus experiences and Unitarian Universalist values inspire her work at IA.