Dr. Geor­gette Ben­nett is an award-win­ning soci­ol­o­gist, wide­ly pub­lished author, pop­u­lar lec­tur­er, and for­mer broad­cast jour­nal­ist for NBC News. In 1992, she found­ed the Tanen­baum Cen­ter for Inter­re­li­gious Under­stand­ing, the go-to orga­ni­za­tion for com­bat­ting reli­gious prej­u­dice. In 2013, Ben­nett found­ed the Mul­ti­faith Alliance for Syr­i­an Refugees, which has worked to raise aware­ness and mobi­lize more than $175 mil­lion of human­i­tar­i­an aid, ben­e­fit­ting more than 2.2 mil­lion Syr­i­an war vic­tims. She is a co-founder of Glob­al Covenant Part­ners and served on the U.S. State Department’s Reli­gion and For­eign Pol­i­cy Work­ing Group tasked with devel­op­ing rec­om­men­da­tions to engage reli­gious actors in con­flict mit­i­ga­tion. Ben­nett is a for­mer fac­ul­ty mem­ber of the City Uni­ver­si­ty of New York and adjunct at New York Uni­ver­si­ty. She has pub­lished four books and more than eighty arti­cles. Ben­nett was award­ed a 2019 AARP Pur­pose Prize, and in 2021 was select­ed as one of Forbes’ 50 over 50 Women of Impact.