Usra Ghazi

Usra Ghazi is a Policy Advisor at the Secretary's Office of Religion and Global Affairs at the US Department of State. She has worked in the nonprofit sector on interreligious engagement for over ten years. She has previously worked with HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad in Amman, Jordan and developed interfaith youth initiatives in both Jordan and the U.S. As a Campus Outreach Manager with the national nonprofit Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), she managed a partnership between IFYC, the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the Department of Education and the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships which focused on integrating interreligious cooperation with service-learning initiatives at hundreds of colleges and universities across the United States. She has also served as a Research Associate at the Pluralism Project at Harvard University where she worked on the On Common Ground interactive web resource and cohosted the Pluralism Podcast. Usra served as a Junior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University (2013-2014) and a Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston Public Policy Fellow (2014-2015) with a placement at the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians. While working at the Mayor’s Office, Usra advised on faith-based policymaking and religious community engagement and helped launch Mayor Marty Walsh’s inaugural Interfaith Advisory Taskforce. Usra holds a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School in Religion and Politics (2015). Her academic work has focused on interreligious peacebuilding, religious nationalism, and the intersection of religion and immigration.