Saturday, August 24, 7:30 - 9pm
Interfaith Panel
Vice President of UNITY EARTH Association Australia
Irina Morrison Irina joined UNITY EARTH in 2017 as an Event Coordinator and has since worked across all aspects of UNITY EARTH. Her main contribution is in communication and event planning. Irina brings diverse set of skills to the team, ensuring that the event planning is correctly and smoothly executed. Outside of UNITY EARTH, Irina unites people on the yoga mat as her other passion is teaching yoga. She is based in Brisbane, Australia.
Patricia Anne Davis is an Indigenous elder of Choctaw and Dine’/Navajo lineage. She is a Whole Systems Designer, specializing in peace-making leadership who has worked as an Administrator in Health and Human Services for 20 years.
She is an International Educator and Organizational Consultant, who is initiated, trained, and experienced in facilitating her authentic “Indigenous Ceremonial Change Process’ she designed for Wellness Restoration with these unifying principles: Inclusive of all ethnic nationalities, Cross-cultural • Inter-generational, Restores resources to the next generation of youth, Universal in practical life application and can be translated into any language.
Rabbi David Rosen has taken leave from his position as AJC’s International Director of Interreligious Affairs in order to serve as Special Advisor to the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi. Rosen has been advancing understanding and good relations between religious communities for more than forty years – from the time he served as rabbi of the largest Orthodox Jewish congregation in South Africa, during his tenure as Chief Rabbi of Ireland; and throughout the last more than thirty years based in Jerusalem.
In addition to interreligious representation and education, his work involves mediation and peace building and he is heavily involved in multi-religious engagement on ecological issues. Among the various awards and recognition he has received, Rabbi Rosen was granted a papal Knighthood in 2005 for his contribution to Jewish-Catholic reconciliation and in 2010 he was made a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II for his work promoting interfaith understanding and cooperation.
Sadhviji is a Co-President of Religions for Peace, the premier international interfaith organization uniting the world’s religious leaders for peace. She serves on the United Nations Advisory Council on Religion and on the steering committees of the International Partnership for Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD) and the Moral Imperative to End Extreme Poverty, a campaign by the United Nations and World Bank. Sadhviji is the Secretary-General of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, an international interfaith organization dedicated to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene; President of Divine Shakti Foundation, a foundation that runs free schools, vocational training programs, and empowerment programs; and Director of the world-famous International Yoga Festival at Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh.
She’s the author of newly released #1 bestselling memoir, Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation. Originally from Los Angeles, a graduate of Stanford University, and a PhD in psychology, Sadhviji has lived on the banks of the sacred Ganga river, in the lap of the Himalayas for more than 25 years engaged in spiritual service, wisdom teaching, sacred action, and deep spiritual practice.
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