Sharyl West Loeung, M.Div. is a speaker, preacher/former pastor, writer and educator who spends her days working with faith leaders, community members, writers and speakers to help them consider what it means to belong in a diverse world. She worked in the higher education sector for over 8 years in diversity, education, training, and program management, and she is now a TedX speaker, DEI trainer and writing consultant.

Though her career has taken her in many directions, the common thread has always been facilitating space for intercultural relationships through bridge building, story-sharing and nurturing cultural humility for the discovery of common ground, and ultimately, meaningful social change.

Sharyl is married with two sons and a hoard of cats. As an avid consumer of current events, op-eds, long form essays, etc., a habit dating back to her days as an extemporaneous speaker and later couch, her love language is article-sending. She also love theater, music and sports.

Sharyl’s Master of Divinity includes a concentration in World Christianity. This contextual framing of Christianity has made the move to Interfaith Studies a natural one. She finds it humbly to encounter the stories of other places and traditions she would not know without story-sharing and active listening. Interfaith leadership is now a primary lens through which she navigates the world along with the importance of recognizing theological diversity in every setting.