Jennifer Bailey

Jennifer Bailey

Founder and Excutive Director, Faith Matters Network, Socrates Program

Reverend Jennifer Bailey is an ordained minister, public theologian, and national leader in multi-faith movement for justice based. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network (FMN).

Named one of 15 Faith Leaders to Watch by the Center for American Progress, Reverend Jennifer Bailey is an ordained minister, public theologian, and national leader in multi-faith movement for justice based. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network (FMN), a people of color led leadership incubator dedicated to catalyzing the voices of emerging justice-centered leaders of faith. Rev. Bailey is the Co-Founder of the People’s Supper, a project that aims to repair the breach in our interpersonal relationships across political, ideological, and identity difference over shared meals. Since January 20, 2017, the People’s Supper has hosted over 1,000 dinners in 121 cities and towns across the United States. Along the way we have teamed up with ordinary citizens, schools, workplaces, faith communities and neighborhood organizations to model what deep community building looks like in a time of deepening social divides.