URI Regional Coordinator North America
Milia Islam-Majeed is the daughter of immigrant parents who migrated to the United States in 1986 from Bangladesh at the age of 7. She has since then lived in the United States spending most of her childhood and adolescence in the small Midwestern town of Fulton, Missouri.
She obtained her undergraduate degree in World Religions and Psychology from Westminster College in Missouri and thereafter moved to Boston for her graduate work. She is a 2004 graduate of Harvard University where she earned her Masters in Theological Studies of the World Religions and Anthropology and a former Fellow at the The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT - a non partisan think tank dedicated to inquiry, dialogue, and education on the ethical and humane dimensions of life.
She joins the URI with nearly 20 years of experience working in the interfaith sector as the former director of the largest and oldest interfaith council in California, serving 35 cities in Southern California. She is a firm believer in the power of grassroot efforts and is deeply committed to creating a world defined by justice, peace and compassion. She finds tremendous joy in spending time with loved ones, leaning from her travels and breathing in the beauty of nature that surrounds her.