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	Sarah Talcott


Title and Organization:		Director of Youth Programs, United Religions Initiative
Gender and Age:		Female, 33
Location:		San Francisco, California
Country of Residence:		United States
Nationalities:		American (US)
Citizenships:		United States
Languages:		English , Spanish



Website:		http://www.uri.org
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About Me

Sarah joined the United Religions Initiative staff in 1999, and has been working in the field of interfaith cooperation and understanding for more than ten years. As the organization's first Youth Programs Director, she coordinates the URI Global Youth Network comprising more than 500 young people from 69 countries and other major initiatives of the Young Leaders Program. For the past five years, Sarah has focused her attention on young people ages 14-30 to engage and empower their leadership in fulfilling the mission to create a thriving, just and sustainable world characterized by cooperation not competition. Toward this end, she has organized and facilitated youth exchanges, leadership seminars and community service projects among youth from many different religious and cultural backgrounds, in Australia, Brazil, Cyprus, India, Spain, the Philippines, UK, and the US. The purpose of these programs are to help young people overcome barriers between them fueled by stereotypes and misinformation about “the other”, and to support their leadership in organizing service-oriented projects of their own that strengthen civil society and social integration. Recently, through the URI Young Leaders Program, Sarah launched a Youth Ambassadors Program to train selected young people in regions around the world in interfaith dialogue, non-violent education and interfaith peacebuilding. She coordinates this work with the URI Young Leaders Steering Committee comprised of young people in eight countries. To find out more, please visit: www.uri.org/action_areas/youth

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