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Rahiel Tesfamariam, a native of war-torn Eritrea who was raised in the District of Columbia, received a B.A. in American Studies from Stanford in 2003. She is currently an advanced Master of Divinity Student at Yale University. As a lifelong writer, she interned with National Geographic Society and Time Inc., before being appointed, at age 23, editor-in-chief of The Washington Informer, an African American-owned newspaper founded in 1964 in the nation's capital. In 2005, Rahiel joined a 12-person delegation that traveled to Khartoum and the conflict-ridden region of Darfur in Sudan on a fact-finding mission. It was also during this time that Rahiel served as co-Youth Advisor for the NAACP D.C. Youth Council and became involved in prison ministry. After her tenure at the Informer, Rahiel taught at a public charter school, served as a consultant for non-profit organizations and as coordinator of "40 Days of Increased Peace," an anti-violence youth initiative in D.C. Rahiel started at Yale Divinity School in 2006 after being named the school's first recipient of the William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Scholarship for Peace and Justice. While at Yale, she has led several campus organizations, founded a student newsletter and traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean and Asia for various research and service projects. Most notably, she joined a 100-person Yale delegation to China in 2007. Rahiel maintains a commitment to liberation and practical theology, social justice, urban affairs, and community organizing.
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