Washington, D.C. Chapter

Upcoming meetings

January 2019

Topic: Media training

Speaker: 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.

When: Thursday, January 24, 2019

Where: Baptist Joint Committee (200 Maryland Ave NE, Washington, D.C.)

February 2019

Topic: TBA

Speaker: Bob Smietana, Religion News Service Editor-in-Chief

When: TBA

Where: TBA

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

• D.C. Chapter discusses the impact of the midterm elections
• D.C. Chapter discusses podcasts that are addictive
• D.C. Chapter hears from NAB and NABEF on new Reporting on Religion project
• GatherDC shares communications strategies for reaching young adults
• D.C. Chapter meets at National Press Club

2017

• Washington Post religion reporter Julie Zauzmer shares stories with the DC chapter
• RCC Washington, DC chapter at the 5th Annual DC Interfaith Leadership Summit

2016

• Peter Manseau discusses the intersection and importance of religion in American history
• D.C. Chapter explores crisis communication tools with Katherine Kerr
• Religion News Service editor-in-chief speaks to DC chapter
• Tom Gjelten discusses respectful faith journalism with RCC DC Chapter
• RCC-DC chapter members tour the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist General Conference

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