MLK Interfaith Service

March 23, 2022

Wendell Pritchett, Interim President, joined the annual Interfaith Commemoration of the Life of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. held at Houston Hall.  The keynote speaker was Liz Theoharis, a reverend and Penn alumna.  Theoharis is co-chair of The Poor People’s Campaign and director of the Kairos Center for Religion, Rights, & Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary.  Community Involvement Awards were presented to Donna Frisby-Greenwood, Matthew Goldshore, Yoonhee Patricia Ha, Luke Coleman, Ala Stanford, Kent D.W. Bream, Maureen Rush, and Glenn D. Bryan.  The commemoration included performances by the Indian dance team Penn Raas, the Penn Shabbatones, and Penn’s Christian a cappella group, Full Measure.

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Photographs by Tina Rodia.