Dr. Geneva Blackmer

Geneva Blackmer is the current Interim Executive Director for the Interfaith Center at Miami University. She has served as a Global Council Trustee for the United Religions Initiative (URI) North America since 2020, of which the Interfaith Center is a Cooperation Circle ("CC"). Her background consists of interreligious and ecumenical cooperation at a grassroots level, working with numerous other interfaith organizations in varying capacities, including the North American Interfaith Network, the Interfaith Council of Southern Nevada, the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington DC,  Faith Communities Go Green, Interfaith Cincy, the Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council, and the World Faiths Center for Religious Experience and Study (CRES). As a Research Assistant (The University of Bonn, Delaware Historical Society) and Visiting Scholar (Boston University School of Theology, Calvin Theological Seminary) her published work spans the disciplines of digital religion, interreligious education, and church history. She holds a PhD from the Turner School of Theology at Amridge University (2025), a Master’s of Ecumenical Studies from the University of Bonn (2024) and a Master of Arts in Religious Studies from Athens State University (2019). In 2019, she founded the Kansas City Interfaith History Project, with guidance from the Rev. Dr. Vern Barnet and the Rev. Dr. Larry Guillot, to preserve the unique and rich interfaith history of the greater Kansas City region (this collection will be housed at the Missouri Valley Room Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library). She is a five precepts lay Buddhist within the Kwan um School of Zen, and has been a member since 2014.