Rev. Dr. Chloe Breyer
Executive Director, Interfaith Center of New York
== Biography ==
Rev. Breyer has served as the Director of the Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY) since 2007.
During the past decade and a half, ICNY has developed a pioneering curriculum in civics training for grassroots religious leaders, built multi-faith advocacy coalitions preventing bias crimes, and promoted criminal justice and immigration reform.
In education, ICNY regularly leads religious diversity training modules for teachers, social workers, law students, and law enforcement officers.
In the years following 9/11, ICNY advocated against unwarranted surveillance of mosques and for the restoration of guidelines that safeguard the civil rights and religious freedom of all New Yorkers.
In 2015, Rev. Breyer served as a community adviser to the court-appointed facilitator tasked with finding a remedy for police profiling in the “stop and frisk” lawsuits against the NYPD.
More recently, Rev. Breyer was one of the clergy advisors on the transition teams of both the incoming Mayor of New York City and the Manhattan District Attorney.
She was included in the 12/05/22 Issue of City & State New York’s inaugural “Faith Power 100” list.
Rev. Breyer has served as the Director of the Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY) since 2007.
During the past decade and a half, ICNY has developed a pioneering curriculum in civics training for grassroots religious leaders, built multi-faith advocacy coalitions preventing bias crimes, and promoted criminal justice and immigration reform.
In education, ICNY regularly leads religious diversity training modules for teachers, social workers, law students, and law enforcement officers.
In the years following 9/11, ICNY advocated against unwarranted surveillance of mosques and for the restoration of guidelines that safeguard the civil rights and religious freedom of all New Yorkers.
In 2015, Rev. Breyer served as a community adviser to the court-appointed facilitator tasked with finding a remedy for police profiling in the “stop and frisk” lawsuits against the NYPD.
More recently, Rev. Breyer was one of the clergy advisors on the transition teams of both the incoming Mayor of New York City and the Manhattan District Attorney.
She was included in the 12/05/22 Issue of City & State New York’s inaugural “Faith Power 100” list.