Trinity College Chapel Interfaith Fellowship
Lead Across Difference.
Build Community.
Flourish Together
What kind of leader does our world need?
Someone who can build community across difference.
Someone who can listen deeply, lead ethically, and bring people together.
Someone who understands that religious, spiritual, and philosophical diversity is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cultivate.
The Trinity College Chapel Interfaith Fellowship is a student leadership program that equips students to become exactly those kinds of leaders.
Grounded in the conviction that meaningful relationships across difference strengthen both individuals and communities, Interfaith Fellows help create a campus where every student belongs and every voice matters.
What Do Interfaith Fellows Do?
Interfaith Fellows serve as student leaders, bridge-builders, and community creators within the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life and across the Trinity community.
Fellows:
- Welcome new students into communities of belonging.
- Help plan and host major interfaith events and celebrations.
- Facilitate conversations across religious, spiritual, and philosophical differences.
- Partner with student organizations and campus offices.
- Support opportunities for service and community engagement.
- Promote religious literacy and understanding on campus.
- Help create spaces where students can explore meaning, purpose, and identity.
Most importantly, Fellows help students discover that difference can become a source of learning, friendship, and growth.
What You’ll Gain
The Interfaith Fellowship is more than a leadership position. It is an opportunity for personal and professional formation.
Fellows develop:
Leadership Skills
Facilitation, collaboration, public speaking, event planning, and community organizing.
Intercultural Competence
The ability to engage thoughtfully and respectfully with people whose experiences and beliefs differ from your own.
Professional Experience
Experience working with campus leaders, community partners, and diverse student communities.
Friendship and Community
Relationships that often become some of the most meaningful parts of the college experience.
Purpose and Vocation
An opportunity to explore how your values and gifts can contribute to the common good.
Signature Programs
Interfaith Fellows help organize and support some of Trinity’s most meaningful community traditions, including:
- Interfaith Gratitude Feast (Fall)
- Interfaith Iftar (Spring)
- Dialogue Programs
- Community Meals
Who Should Apply?
You do not need to belong to a particular religious tradition to become an Interfaith Fellow.
We welcome students who are:
- Religious
- Spiritual but not religious
- Humanist or secular
- Questioning or exploring
- Curious about other traditions
- Passionate about leadership and community building
If you care about belonging, dialogue, service, and helping others flourish, you belong in this work.
Our Philosophy
The Interfaith Fellowship is grounded in a simple idea:
You do not need to think alike to belong together.
In an increasingly interconnected world, the ability to engage difference with curiosity, humility, and compassion is one of the defining leadership skills of the twenty-first century.
Interfaith Fellows practice those skills every day.
Ready to Apply?
Join a community of students committed to building a more connected, compassionate, and flourishing Trinity College.
Applications open each spring for the following academic year.
For more information, contact the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life or stop by the Chapel office.
