Our Esteemed Advisers

If you are, or know, a faith leader who would like to be a part of our advisory team, please let us know. Faiths for Safe Water welcomes all.


Rabbi Jack Bemporad, FSW co-founder; Executive Director, Center for Interreligious Understanding (New Jersey) and Director, The John Paul II Center for Interreligious Dialogue at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Rome)

The Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski, Dean, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine (New York)

The Most Reverend Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, Armenian Church of America and past President, National Council of Churches (Washington, DC)

Laila Muhammad, African-American Muslim Church leader and daughter of W.D. Muhammad (Chicago)

Rinchen Dharlo, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of the Americas and President of the Tibet Fund (New York)

Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson, President, Auburn Seminary (New York)

Rev. Jennifer Crumpton, author/blogger, Park Avenue Christian Church (New York)

Imam Mohamed Magid, Executive Director, All Dulles Area Muslim Society; Past President, Islamic Society of North America (Washington, DC) 

Rev. Dr. Galen Guengerich, Senior Minister, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church (New York)

Rev. Fletcher Harper, Executive Director, Greenfaith (New Jersey)

Imam Abdullah Antepli, Chaplain, Duke University (North Carolina)

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, Founder and President, Uri L'Tzedek Orthodox social justice (Arizona/New York)

Rev. Brian D. McLaren, Christian author/speaker/leader, emerging church movement (Florida)

Rev. Cameron Trimble, Director/Convergence and CEO/Center for Progressive Renewal (Atlanta)

Rabbi Burt Visotzky, Jewish Theological Seminary (New York)

Rev. Al Bailey, New Psalmist Baptist Church, Faith in Water, (Baltimore) 

Sr. Mary Bellekom, Faith in Water,  (Bristol, UK)

Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Lewis, Senior Pastor, Middle Collegiate Church (New York)

Rev. Dr. Alice Hunt, President, Chicago Theological Seminary

Rabbi Ari Hart, Co-Founder, Uri L'Tzedek Orthodox social justice (New York)

Susan Barnett, Faiths for Safe Water Co-Founder and Project Director: An Emmy-nominated investigative journalist (ABC News magazines Prime Time Live, 20/20, and Dateline NBC), Susan now consults with a diverse ranges of nonprofits and leadership at the nexus of faith/communications/social justice. She is very committed to global health and development, heading communications for Faith for International Assistance, and Global Water 2020. And so moved by the global water crisis as the linchpin to solving the world's biggest problems, she thought it only made sense to create Faiths for Safe Water, a nexus for faith-in-action around the single symbol shared by all religions.

She is easily reached at susankbarnett@gmail.com