Rebecca, age 30, studied Protestant Theology and Jewish Studies in a Master’s programme in Berlin and Potsdam. Spending one year of her studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (“Studium in Israel e.V.”), she. experienced daily interreligious and intercultural encounters as part of living as a religious minority in Jerusalem. At the Berlin conference in 2009 she felt inspired by the open, respectful and relationship-oriented way trilateral dialogue was facilitated through the YLC. She became a member of the YLC board that year and has been serving the board as communications director and vice-chair before she became chair of the YLC in Krakow 2011. Upon receiving her Master’s degree, Rebecca left Berlin to move back west. Currently she works as a youth leader and community organizer in two church communities.. She is passionate about learning, creating community and fostering relationships between people from very different backgrounds.

Bianca Canave grew up in a community rife with religious tensions. It was through her exposure to these tensions that her interests in interfaith work developed, and eventually led to an Honors BA in Religious Studies. Throughout her undergraduate career Bianca served on the board of the Centre for Catholic-Jewish-Muslim Learning, at King's University College. There, she developed an annual interfaith event with the support and participation of local residents, students, and faculty. It was also in that time that she was actively engaged in intercultural dialogue, often speaking to audiences of high school students to a room filled with Canada's top CEO's and Philanthropists about her experiences as a visible minority and the importance of multicultural integration. Bianca is currently doing post-graduate studies in Corporate Communications at Seneca College in Toronto, Canada. She is passionate about sparking pertinent dialogue in our increasingly globalized world, and is eager to continue contributing to interfaith initiatives on an international scale. Bianca was previously a YLC conference participant in July of 2010 - Dublin.