Imam Yahya Hendi, the director for Muslim Life, has been at Georgetown for 22 years, and was the first Muslim chaplain to be hired full-time by an American university. He is a Public Policy Conflict Resolution Fellow at the Center for Dispute Resolution at the University of Maryland School of Law and the Maryland Judiciary’s Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office. Hendi is founder and president of Clergy Beyond Borders and serves as a member of the Islamic Jurisprudence Council of North America. He has also served as an adjunct faculty member for Fordham University, Hartford Seminary, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Science, and Osher’s Lifelong Learning Institute of John Hopkins University. He taught Georgetown’s Inter-religious Encounters course.