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Washington, D.C. Chapter

Upcoming meetings:

Friday, November 9: Discussion with religious leaders on how the midterm elections may impact work in the religion sector

Location: Friends Committee on National Legislation (245 Second St, NE)

Optional tour of the FCNL offices to follow the meeting. The building is the first LEED-certified building on Capitol Hill.

Thursday, January 24, 2019: Media training, led by Anuttama Dasa of ISKCON (Throughout his career, Anuttama has been interviewed by multiple media outlets including BBC, Fox News, ABC, Larry King Live, and more, and he has led workshops on this topic)

Contact

Cherilyn Crowe, Director of Communications, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty

Selected previous DC chapter meetings

Click the links below to read about some of the previous meetings of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Religion Communicators Council

2018

Write-ups coming soon for our 2018 podcast discussion meeting and our conversation with Hannah Allam of BuzzFeed News!

2017

2016

2015

DC Chapter closes 2015 with writing tips, roundtable discussions, officer elections
Strategic storytelling: Workshop challenges D.C. chapter to create powerful stories — Speakers: John Trybus and Bridget Pooley from the Georgetown University Center for Social Impact Communication.
DC chapter discusses the intersection between development and communications — Speakers: Daphne Price, development director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; Kari Bert, Bread for the World; and Taryn Deaton, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.

2014

Webcast: What the data really says about trends in religion — Conversation with Michelle Boorstein of the Washington Post, David Kinnaman from the Barna Group, and Alan Cooperman from Pew Research Center
DC chapter discusses the art and technique of a strategic communications plan — Speaker: Gemma Puglisi
DC chapter discusses multimedia and digital communications — Speaker: Beth Becker
DC chapter tours NPR international headquarters
Winkler wpeaks on the importance of faith voices in larger conversations, future of National Council of Churches — Speaker: Jim Winkler, General Secretary/President of the National Council of Churches
The changing role of faith communities in a community-oriented approach to prison ministry — Speaker: Dr. Harold Dean Trulear of Healing Communities
Putting religion stories in a broader context — Speaker: Kevin Eckstrom, editor-in-chief of Religion News Service

2013

DC chapter learns about White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships — Speaker: Melissa Rogers, Director of White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Eric Marrapodi and Daniel Burke speak at DC chapter meeting – Speakers: Eric Marrapodi and Daniel Burke from the CNN Belief Blog
Dr. Sayyid Syeed is speaker at Washington, DC chapter meeting — Speaker: Sayyid Syeed from the Islamic Society of North America

2012

RCC scholarship recipient leads DC chapter in workshop on stages of a social media campaign — Speaker: Meg Biallas
Interfaith Voices host talks radio with DC chapter — Speaker: Maureen Fiedler, host of Interfaith Voices radio program
Nothing consistent about disaster — Speaker: Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA Today