Speaker Profiles

Department of Theological Studies
Loyola Marymount University
One LMU Drive, University Hall 3700
Los Angeles, CA 90045-8400
Phone: (310) 338-7670
Fax: (310) 338-1947
Dr. Jack Miles, Macarthur Fellow, Resident Scholar and former Senior Advisor to the President, The J. Paul Getty Trust and Senior Fellow with the Pacific Council on International Policy. Dr. Miles has taught at the California Institute of Technology, Loyola University, Chicago, and the University of Montana. He is a contributing editor to the Atlantic Monthly and Pulitzer-Prize winning author of God: A Biography.

Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Rector and Distinguished professor of Philosophy and Co-Chair, Bioethics Dept., University of Judaism. For 30 years, he has taught a course on Jewish lat at UCLA School of Law as a Visiting Professor. He was awarded the Journal of Law and Religion's Lifetime Achievement and is the author of 12 books, including, To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics.

Dr. Azim Nanji has been Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, since 1998. Previously, he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at the University of Florida and has taught at McGill University and Haverford College. He has authored, co-authored and edited several books including, The Historical Atlas of the Muslim World, Mapping Islamic Studies and The Muslim Almanac. He delivered the Baccalaureate Address at Stanford University in 1995.

Rev. Leonard B. Jackson is currently serving on the Executive Staff, as Senior Advisor to the Mayor of Los Angeles. He has been Associate Minister at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, for 22 years, is the former President of The Los Angeles Council of Churches, a former member of the Board of Directors of the California Council of Churches and President Emeritus of The Interfaith Alliance (Washington, D.C.)