2026 Dare to Understand^® Awards Ceremony

• Britain Covey
  • Philadelphia Eagles Wide Receiver and Punt Returner

• Imam Dr. Quaiser D. Abdullah
  • Chair of the Board of Directors, 2021-2024
• The Reverend B. Jesse Garner
  • Former Chair of the Board of Directors
• Marjorie N. Scharf
  • Founder of Walking the Walk Youth Initiative
• The Very Rev. Judith A. Sullivan
  • Former Chair of the Board of Directors

• Valarie Kaur 

• Msgr. Michael Carroll
• Sr. Maria Hornung

• Dr. Ala Stanford
  • Founder of the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium
• Dr. Anthony Fauci
  • Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

• Milan Kunz
  • On behalf of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Philadelphia Area
• Rev. Steven Lawrence
  • On behalf of NewCORE (New Conversation on Race and Ethnicity)

• Krista Tippett
  • Journalist, Author, Host of National Public Radio Program and Podcast "On Being"

• PECO
  • Accepted by Elizabeth Murphy
• Husnaa Hashim
  • Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate, Walking the Walk Aluma
• Jane Golden
  • Founder, President of Mural Arts Philadelphia

• Eboo Patel
  • Founder, President of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC)

• Gity Banan-Etemad, MD
  • Founding Board Member, Philadelphia Baha'i Faith Leade
• The Honorable Michael A. Nutter
  • Former Mayor of Philadelphia

• Helen Cunningham
  • President of the Samuel S. Fels Fund
• SEPTA/General Counsel Gino Benedetti
  • Leaders in the Center's coalitional effort to mount a public response to the anti-Islamic ad campaign on SEPTA buses
  • Read remarks from our 2015 Walking the Walk Alumni Presenter, Hanna Elmongy

Interfaith Philadelphia 10th Anniversary Awards

• Current and Past Board Chairs:
  • Rev. Richard Fernandez
  • Imam Muhammad Abdur-Razzaq Miller
  • Sr. Gloria Coleman, SHCJ
  • Lawrence Silverman, Esq.

• S.A. Ibrahim
  • CEO of Radian; Sponsor of Ibrahim Fellows Program (interfaith initiative for young adults) Convener, Business Leaders Roundtable of Interfaith Philadelphia
• Michael Pasek (Student Recipient)
  • Alumnus of the Interfaith Center's Walking the Walk Youth Program; Ph.D. Candidate, Penn State in Diversity & Psychology

• Thomas Stewart, In Memoriam
  • Banker and Board member of Interfaith Philadelphia whose interfaith activism followed the tragic loss of his son-in-law in the World Trade Center on 9/11.