Jenan Mohajir and Rebecca Russo discuss what it's been like since Oct. 7, 2023, including what it's meant to them, their communities, and their friendship.
October 07, 2024
Rebecca oversees IA’s higher education strategy and programs, supporting universities to become laboratories where students can deepen and challenge their own worldviews and collaborate across divides. Rebecca has worked at IA for nearly a decade and was previously Director of Engagement at Northwestern Hillel and Executive Director of the Campus Climate Initiative at Hillel International. Rebecca has written on pluralism in outlets including the Journal of College and Character, Religion News Service, Times Higher Education, and USA Today. Rebecca holds a B.A. in Middle East Studies from Brown University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Rebecca’s work is inspired by her interfaith experiences living in Morocco and Jerusalem and by the Talmudic concept of “these and those are words of the living God.” Rebecca lives in Chicago and enjoys singing, hiking, and chasing around her three children.
