Monica Willard Kevin Ross

Monica Willard Kevin Ross

Monica Willard is main United Religions Initiative Representative to the UN and coordinates the team of URI UN representatives. Monica served as Chair of the 49th Annual DPI/NGO Conference at the UN. She was a founding member of the International Day of Peace NGO Committee at the UN in 2002 and is currently serving as Co-Chair. As President of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the UN (2010-2013), she organized programs for World Interfaith Harmony Week, including two held in the UN General Assembly. Reverend Kevin Kitrell Ross is a Chicago native who now serves as the Senior Minister of Unity of Sacramento, the first Unity church in the State of California. He is regarded as a respected interfaith social justice leader, committed to building bridges of understanding and cooperation across race, culture, class and religious lines. He has shared the stage with luminaries ranging from His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, President Nelson Mandela to Ella Gandhi and Dr. Marian Wright Edelman.