Our Team

Meet the Spiritual Life team: chat over chai, find community or resources, connect with people, get involved with programs that center on questions of spirituality and meaning, seek spiritual care.

Spiritual Life Team

Tauseef Akbar

Tauseef Akbar

Associate Director, Spiritual Life; Coordinator of Muslim Life

773.702.2484
takbar@uchicago.edu

As Coordinator of Muslim Life, I advise, facilitate, advocate for and support our vibrant Muslim community on campus. As chaplain I also offer spiritual care and counseling to the whole campus community. I joined Spiritual Life in the Fall of 2022, after serving as Chaplain of Muslim and Interfaith Life at Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges. If you have questions about Spiritual and Religious Life or regarding the Muslim community on campus don’t hesitate to reach out to me and/or set up an appointment. I also enjoy discussions around shared interests of religious studies, literature, history, creative writing, graffiti, travel and chess!

Jigna Shah

Jigna Shah

Senior Associate Dean of Rockefeller Chapel; Director of Spiritual Life

773.834.1885
jigna@uchicago.edu

As Associate Dean and Director of Spiritual Life, I oversee and manage support for religious and spiritual life on campus, including addressing the needs of students of particular traditions, facilitating understanding of and across traditions among other things. A native New Yorker commuting from Plainfield, IL–I joined UChicago in 2005 and the Rockefeller & Spiritual Life team in 2011. I love UChicago’s Shake Day tradition, chai, chats, board games and Netflix binges! Come see me for any of the above or anything else (even coffee!) (Pronouns: she/her).

 

Kimraj Jordan

Kimraj Jordan

Spiritual Life Program Coordinator

  • Divinity School
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Arlene Li

Arlene Li

Spiritual Life Program Coordinator

  • College
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Dylan Mears

Dylan Mears

Spiritual Life Program Coordinator

  • Divinity School
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      Diego Orrego

      Diego Orrego

      Spiritual Life Program Coordinator Lead

      • College
      • Coffee or Tea: Mocha
      • Hometown: Kensington, MD
      • Fun Fact: I make a mean loaf of focaccia
      Nuria Rodgers

      Nuria Rodgers

      Spiritual Life Program Coordinator

      • Crown School of Social Work
      • Coffee or Tea: Coffee
      • Hometown: Plainfield, IL
      • Fun Fact: I have a cat I love very much! It’s my baby!
      Katarina Stanisavljevic

      Katarina Stanisavljevic

      Meditation & Yoga Facilitator

      • Divinity School
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          Jessica Taing

          Jessica Taing

          Yoga Facilitator

          • Divinity School
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          Intern

          • UChicago Affiliation
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              Spiritual Life Liaisons

              Spiritual Life recognizes individuals from particular traditions who serve the campus as a whole, and also works with campus partners from key offices.

              Advisors, listed below, work with Spiritual Life and other campus partners to provide support for members of their own and other traditions. They may be clergy or representatives of non-profit organizations, or faculty or community partners who work with students of traditions where no professional advisor exists. Advisors sign and abide by the Ethical Framework for Religious and Spiritual Life.

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              Student Wellness Liaison

              773.834.XXXX

              LaSabra Williams

              LaSabra Williams

              Center for Leadership and Involvement Liaison

              773.702.2202
              lasabra@uchicago.edu

               

              Sean Lee

              Sean Lee

              College Liaison

              773.834.0872
              silee@uchicago.edu

               

              Spiritual Life Advisors

              Jon Aaron
              Advisor
              JAaron1@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Insight Meditation
              (Pali Tradition)

              The Rev. Stacy Alan
              Chaplain
              salan@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Christian (Episcopal)
              Brent House, Canterbury Club

              Saba Ayman–Nolley
              Advisor
              saymannolley@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Bahá’í
              Bahá’í Student Association

              Mrs. Baila Brackman
              Rabbi
              chabad@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Jewish 
              Chabad, JGrads

              Rabbi Yossi Brackman
              Rabbi
              rabbi@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Jewish 
              Chabad

              Reverend Angie Buchanan
              Advisor
              angiebuchanan@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Pagan Animist
              Earth Traditions / University of Chicago Pagans

              Rev. Eric Flood, DMin
              Campus Staff Minister
              eflood@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Christian (Interdenominational)
              InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship

              Mrs. Rebecca Flood
              Campus Staff Minister
              becky.flood@intervarsity.org
              Confidential Resource
              Christian
              (Evangelical Covenant Church)
              Graduate Christian Fellowship

              Jenn George
              Advisor
              jcgeorge@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Jewish
              Hillel

              Swami Ishatmananda
              Advisor
              info@chicagovedanta.org
              Confidential Resource
              Hindu
              (Vedanta Society of Chicago)
              Hindu Sangam

              Brother Adam Jardine
              Advisor
              JardineAR@ChurchofJesusChrist.org
              Christian
              (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
              Latter-day Saint Student Association

              Samuel N. Landon
              Advisor
              snlandon@uchicago.edu
              Catholic 
              Calvert House

              Rev. Dr. Woo Min Lee
              lwm0408@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Christian
              (United Methodist Church)
              Korean-American United Methodist Campus Ministry

              Moises Mendez
              Campus staff
              moisesm@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Christian (Ecumenical)
              Christians in Business at Booth

              Rev. David H. Messner
              Sr. Minister
              messner@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              (Unitarian Universalist)
              Campus Ministry, First Unitarian Church

              Bing Nieh
              Pastor
              bnieh@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Christian
              (Evangelical, Protestant/Non-denominational)
              The University Ministry of Christ Church Chicago (UMC3)

              Charles Nolley
              Advisor
              cnolley@uchicago.edu
              Bahá’í
              Bahá’í Student Association

               

              David Park
              Campus Pastor
              davidpark@uchicago.edu
              Christian
              (Southern Baptist, SEND Network)
              International Student Fellowship
              Voyage College Church

              Matthew Podszus
              Director
              mpodszus@uchicago.edu
              Christian (Protestant)
              CANA Journal, Poema, Veritas Forum

              Kevin J. Priest
              Director of Graduate Life
              kevin@uchicagohillel.org
              Jewish
              Hillel

               

              Rabbi Mendel Rapoport
              Rabbi
              rabbimendel@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Jewish
              Chabad, JGrads 

              Michael Schnabel, PhD
              Buddhist Advisor
              mschnabel@uchicago.edu
              Chan / Zen Buddhism,
              UChicago Buddhist Association, Wednesday Chan/Zen Meditation @Rockefeller Chapel

              The Rev. Matthew Stuhlmuller
              Campus Pastor
              mstuhlmuller@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Christian (Lutheran, ELCA)
              Lutheran Campus Ministry

               

              Reverend Andrew M Wawrzyn
              Chaplain
              awawrzyn@uchicago.edu
              Confidential Resource
              Roman Catholic
              Catholic Student Association Graduate Catholic Student Association

              Miwa Yasui
              Associate Professor
              Faculty Advisor for AAIV
              myasui@uchicago.edu
              Christian
              Asian American Intervarsity

              Kirstin Yu
              Advisor
              kyu42@uchicago.edu
              Christian
              Asian American InterVarsity

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