SANDHYA JHA TO RECEIVE AWARD
Sandhya R. Jha has been named the 2022 recipient of the Distinguished Alumna Award by the Alumni/ae Council. The author of four books and founder of the Oakland Peace Center, she is speaker, visionary, and community organizer who serves with the Emerging Leaders Program at Allen Temple. She graduated from the joint MDiv and Master of Public Policy program in 2006. Sandhya Jha is part of an outstanding generation of religious leaders who studied and thought together at Disciples House. Among this remarkable group, she stands out for creating new forms and venues of shared transformative engagement that are grounded in keen social and theological interpretation, and for writing that connects present engagement with the testimony of the ancestors and urgent implications for the future.
ALUM & FRIENDS GATHERING, JUNE 10-11, 2022
The Alumni/ae Council is pleased to announce a gathering of alumni, friends, and students in Chicago on June 10–11, 2022, to present the Distinguished Alumna/us Award. The theme for the gathering is “What Kind of Goodness Comes from This?”
We’ll gather to celebrate and to reflect together on the kind of goodness that comes even in times of trial and trouble. We're planning a mix of discussion, conversation, food, and festivity. The event begins at 3:30pm Friday with the presentation of the Distinguished Alumna Award and Sandhya Jha's address in response. It continues with a backyard BBQ, and nighttime StoryHour in the DDH Courtyard. Saturday morning we'll gather for breakfast outdoors, then for worship in the Chapel of the Holy Grail with Ayanna Johnson Watkins, and finally for a panel on the weekend theme. We'll conclude by noon on Saturday.