Rebecca Russo oversees Interfaith America’s (IA) higher-education strategy, with a particular focus on bridge-building programs and partnerships with higher-education associations. Russo has worked with since 2014 and sees college campuses as a laboratory where students can deepen and challenge their own worldviews, learning to build relationships across divides. Russo has worked in higher education for more than a decade, including  as the director of engagement at Northwestern University’s Fiedler Hillel and as executive director of the Campus Climate Initiative at Hillel International. Russo holds a bachelor’s degree in Middle East Studies from Brown University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Russo 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”—to work toward a society where religious diversity is engaged actively and positively.