Rev. Dr. Chloe Breyer has served as the director of the Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY) since 2007. An episcopal priest in the Diocese of New York, Breyer has served at Harlem churches for more than two decades, including as associate priest at St. Philip’s Church since 2012. In 2015, 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, 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. In addition to local religious peacemaking work, Breyer has also participated in interfaith dialogues and humanitarian aid initiatives in Afghanistan and Iran and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of The Close: A Young Woman’s First Year at Seminary (Basic Books 2000) and her op-eds have appeared in Slate, the NY Daily News, the International New York Times (Herald Tribune) and elsewhere. She received her PhD in Christian ethics from Union Theological Seminary in 2017 and her doctoral dissertation focused on interfaith activism, Christian peacemaking, and Islamophobia. She was included in the 12/05/22 Issue of City & State New York’s inaugural “Faith Power 100” list.