Rev. Dr. Katharine R. Henderson
Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson serves as Senior Advisor to Interfaith Alliance, a 30 year old organization, working nationwide through advocacy, mobilization and education to forge powerful alliances among people of diverse faiths and beliefs to build an inclusive, resilient democracy and fulfill America’s promise of religious freedom and civil rights for all. She is President Emerita of Auburn Seminary in New York City. During her tenure as President, she became recognized as a change agent, leading a 200 year old Christian institution with interfaith commitments, to become a national leadership development organization focused on building a multifaith movement for justice. In recognition of her accomplishments at Auburn, she was named co-recipient of the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize for the innovative projects she led, including Auburn’s Face to Face | Faith to Faith Program, working with young leaders from conflict and post-conflict regions around the world, and the Auburn Senior Fellows network, a unique cohort of public faith leaders, recognized as the prophets of our time. She is the author of God’s Troublemakers: How Women of Faith are Changing the World (Continuum, 2006). Katharine is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) and received her M.Div. from Union Seminary in New York City and her doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College. Katharine lives on a country road in the Hudson Valley of New York with her husband Chuck and their puppy, Nelson.