Alexander Levering Kern (he/him/his) is a widely-published poet, writer, and editor. A Quaker chaplain and interfaith leader, Alex serves as the founding Executive Director of the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue and Service (CSDS) at Northeastern University. Editor of the anthology Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing from Rising Generations, Alex’s poems appear in Spiritus, CONSEQUENCE online, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), About Place Journal, Spare Change News, Ibbetson Street, and elsewhere, and his interfaith social justice work been covered by the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Harvard Gazette, and other media. Prior to Northeastern, Alex served as Executive Director of Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries (CMM) and on the staff of the Harvard Pluralism Project, Brandeis University, Andover Newton Theological School, and Pendle Hill Quaker Study Center. His work has taken him to post-earthquake Haiti, rural Honduras, post-apartheid Southern Africa, peacemaking communities in northern Nigeria, and on interfaith pilgrimages to the Arizona-Mexico borderlands and from Selma to St. Louis/Ferguson.
