Ripple Interfaith Conference: Student-led Interfaith

The Ripple Conference is a student-led conference that empowers and inspires interfaith student leaders through dialogue, community-building, and inclusive programming. Our goal is to empower and inspire through time set aside to learn, engage, reflect, and share.

Ripple is all about connection, curiosity, and understanding. It’s a celebration of how individuals with diverse religious, spiritual, and ethical identities come together in pursuit of kindness, learning, and community.

Ripple brings together students from multiple campuses to engage in interfaith first-hand.  The 2026 year’s theme, A Recipe for Interfaith, invites us to explore the ingredients that make interfaith connections possible, both symbolically and tangibly. Together, we’ll look at how food and shared meals create space for connection, and how sharing recipes, stories, and traditions can help us build understanding across religious, spiritual, and ethical identities and worldviews.

 

During Ripple, participants engage in dialogue, reflection, and training through keynote speakers, panels, interactive breakout workshops, educational prayer services, a community art project that facilitates reflection and understanding across differences, a coffeehouse featuring participant music and expression, and a service project where attendees engage with the local community. Ripple is designed to help students and educators interested in interfaith engagement to experience it firsthand.

 

“The Ripple Conference creates the opportunities for stories to be shared and heard in a uniquely comfortable space. It’s such an incredible weekend to connect with students, staff, and faculty from far and wide. I am looking forward to see more of Ripple!” – Kenzie Ross ’27

 

Ripple 2026 Advisory Board:

Ripple 2026 Leadership Team:

Hillary Zaken Staff Advisor
Lauren Bedell ’26 Director
Rocco Albano ’26 Director
Bella Kuperman ’28 Breakout Session Director
Kenzie Ross ’27 Communications Director
Alana Moss-Caldwell ’28 Hospitality Director
Lizeth Torres-Tomas ’27 Hospitality Director
Ahron Frankel ’26 Community/Affinity Coordinator
Omar Khamis ’28 Community/Affinity Coordinator
Tess Trayner ’26 Sacred Sounds Coordinator
Zach Weitzen ’26 Panel Coordinator
Addison Anderson ’28 Panel Coordinator
Taylor Polonsky ’28 Service Project Coordinator

 

The Ripple Conference offers a balance of structured and unstructured, small and large group events to provide a unique conference experience. We don’t just talk about interfaith, we make it happen.

We leave you with the question:  Where will your ripples go?

Visit the Ripple Conference website for more information!