The Rev. Chloe Breyer is Executive Director of the Interfaith Center of New York and also serves as an associate priest at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in West Harlem. Previously, Breyer worked at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as Chaplain to the Cathedral School and Director of the Cathedral Forums on Religion on Public Life. After 9/11, Breyer undertook an interfaith initiative to rebuild a bombed mosque in Afghanistan and has returned four times for additional faith-based aid projects, including a women’s health clinic and a co-ed school. Prior to the 2005 Millennium Summit, Breyer worked with the US Campaign for the Millennium Development Goals to raise awareness about the MDGs among American religious leaders of different faith traditions. Breyer’s publications include The Close: A Young Woman's First Year at Seminary (Basic Books, 2000), along with chapters in What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken World (Church Publishing, 2005), and Getting on Message: Challenging the Christian Right From the Heart of the Gospel (Beacon Press, 2006). Breyer is also a contributor to Slate and is working on her Ph.D. in Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary.

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