This document announces the 17th Annual Lives of Commitment Awards Benefit Breakfast hosted by Auburn Theological Seminary. The event will honor multifaith leaders who work to promote social justice and bridge religious divides, including Lauren Bush Lauren, Sister Simone Campbell, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, and several Auburn Seminary program alumni. During a panel discussion, the honorees will discuss building an economy with resources for all. The breakfast aims to celebrate bold leaders whose lives of commitment inspire others to heal the world.

1. Celebrating multifaith leaders who trouble the waters and heal the world.
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Hosted by the Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson, President, Auburn Seminary
Honoring
Lauren Bush Lauren | CEO and Co-Founder, FEED Projects
Sister Simone Campbell, SSS | Executive Director of NETWORK and leader of the “Nuns on the Bus” tour
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Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth | U.S. Representative for Illinois’ 8th Congressional District
Millennial trailblazers from Auburn’s Face to Face | Faith to Faith program in Jerusalem and the U.S.:
Salem Abdelrhman | Abu Gosh, Jerusalem Program alumnus, 2004
Lives of Commitment
Miki Joelson | Jerusalem, Jerusalem Program facilitator 2011 and 2012
Alexander Posner | New York City, U.S. Program alumnus, 2012
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Cipriani 42nd St | 110 East 42nd Street | NYC
emotionally and intellectually to
7:00 to 7:30 AM | Registration
7:30 to 9:00 AM | Breakfast and Program
Awards
9:00 to 10:30 AM | Panel Discussion with Honorees: Building a Moral Economy with Resources for All
In today’s interconnected world, transformational change blooms when we are bold in
our pursuits of social justice, when we represent the diversity of a multifaith world, and when
we honor established and emerging leaders whose lives of commitment inspire us.
a course of action.
On May 1, you are invited to honor bold women leaders and next generation activists who
bridge religious divides, build community, pursue justice, and heal the world.
Lauren Bush Lauren is Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, a Sister Congresswoman
the CEO and Co-Founder of Social Service, is Executive Director Tammy Duckworth
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of FEED Projects, a of NETWORK in Washington, D.C. She is is an Iraq War Lives of Commitment Committee*
charitable company a religious leader, attorney and poet Veteran and the
with a mission to create with extensive experience in public policy first Asian-American Auburn Theological Seminary is an institute for religious Co-Chairs Barbara B. Friedman
leadership that faces the challenges of our fragmented, complex, Cantor Angela Paula K. Hawkins
good products that help and advocacy for systemic change. woman elected to
and violent time. We envision religion as a catalyst and resource and Jacob Buchdahl Helen LaKelly Hunt
feed the world. Sales of Last year, she led the “Nuns on the Bus” Congress in Illinois.
for a new world—one in which difference is celebrated, Carolyn Buck-Luce Leah Hunt-Hendrix
FEED products support the UN World tour to highlight She was awarded a Purple Heart for
abundance is shared, and people are hopeful, working for a Mary Byron Betty C. Jones
Food Programme and UNICEF and have the work Catholic combat injuries sustained during Operation
future that is better than today. Barbara Dobkin Deborah Korzenik
provided nearly 60 million school meals Sisters do to Iraqi Freedom. As Director of the Illinois
to children worldwide. Lauren has meet the needs of Department of Veterans Affairs, and Gail Furman, PhD Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Lewis
Auburn Seminary equips bold and resilient leaders—religious
visited many countries to learn firsthand people at the as Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and secular, women and men, adults and teens—with the tools and Marianne and John Golieb Jenny Lyss
about the realities of poverty and economic margins. she implemented many first-in-the-nation resources they need for our multifaith society. We provide them James L. Henderson Barbara Moss
hunger which inspired her to design the programs, including those combating with education, research, support, and media savvy, so that they Mark Hostetter and Alex Habib Lori Ordover
initial FEED bag in 2005. Post Traumatic Stress among Vets and can bridge religious divides, build community, pursue justice, Nina and S.A. Ibrahim Joyce Crowell Palevitz
addressing the unique challenges facing and heal the world. Abigail Pogrebin Pamela G. Perkins
female Veterans. Stephen J. Quigley Laura L. Phillips
Lives of Commitment Awards Benefit Breakfast Melinda Wolfe Sandra Landau Rippe
Benefit Office | 156 Fifth Avenue | Suite 1100 | NY, NY 10010 Mary T. Yelenick Patricia Ryan
Millennial trailblazers from Auburn’s Face to Face | Faith to Faith program in Jerusalem and the U.S.:
T: 212.675.9474 ext. 15 | F: 212.675.9834 Sheri Cyd Sandler
Salem Abdelrhman (left) was a Miki Joelson (center) co-facilitated Alexander Posner (right) was a E: locbreakfast2013@ auburnseminary.org Committee
Claire Silberman
participant in the F2F Jerusalem the F2F Jerusalem program in participant in the F2F American Mike Abram
www.auburnseminary.org/lives2013 Nicki Newman Tanner
program in 2004. He enjoys exploring 2011 and 2012. She takes pride program in 2012. He has also Laila Al-Askari
Serita Winthrop
how music crosses boundaries in combining the study of her teamed with “Magicians Without Mary Lindley Burton
and helps people think about the Jewish heritage with contemporary Borders” to bring entertainment to Jocelyn Cunningham
Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a new way. Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. hospitalized Veterans. Katie Dolan
Ariela Dubler * In formation