Maggie Siddiqi
Senior Fellow

Maggie Siddiqi

Maggie Siddiqi is Senior Fellow at Interfaith Alliance. She serves as a consultant specializing in

faith-based advocacy for social change, coalition-building across lines of difference, and public

policy on religious freedom and standing up against hate. Siddiqi recently concluded her

appointment to the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Education, where she served as Director of

the Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Prior to joining the Biden-Harris

administration she served as senior director of the Religion and Faith team at the Center for

American Progress, where she led the organization’s work on religious liberty and engaged a

coalition of diverse faith leaders to advance progressive policies. Siddiqi spent nearly a decade

before that in national organizations serving American Muslim communities. She has a master’s

degree in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations from Hartford Seminary and a bachelor’s degree

in religion from Wesleyan University. Siddiqi also earned graduate certificates in Islamic

chaplaincy from Hartford Seminary and in nonprofit management from Georgetown

University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

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