Additional featured luminaries will share their deep commitment to service for humanity, action-based change, and investing in communities to build better for the future.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival; Bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; and the author of four books: We Are Called To Be A Movement; Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing; The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and The Rise of a New Justice Movement; and Forward Together: A Moral Message For The Nation.
Dharma Master Cheng Yen was born in 1937 in a small town in Taichung County, Taiwan. When she was 23 years old, she become a Buddhist nun. Her mentor, Venerable Master Yin Shun, instructed her to work “for Buddha’s teachings for sentient beings.”
In 1966, she founded a charity which later became the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation.
Lord Karan Bilimoria, CBE is the first ever Zoroastrian Parsi to sit in the House of Lords, the founder of Cobra Beer, Chairman of the Cobra Beer Partnership Limited, and Chairman of Molson Coors Cobra India.
Lord Bilimoria is the Founding Chairman of the UK India Business Council, a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London, a former Chancellor of Thames Valley University; he was the youngest University Chancellor in the UK when appointed.
Dr. Vandana Shiva is trained as a Physicist and did her Ph.D. on the subject “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy. She founded an independent institute, the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in Dehra Dun dedicated to high quality and independent research , and in 1991 she founded Navdanya, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources.
The 2021 Parliament hosts and features over 500 programs, more than 100 global luminaries, and countless opportunities to connect with the global interfaith movement. Don't miss this inspiring Convening, happening in less than 20 days!
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