Rev. Dr. Shannon Daley-Harris

The Rev. Dr. Shannon Daley-Harris, Associate Dean, leads Auburn’s program team and develops strategy, curriculum, and resources for our programs that ground faith and religious leaders in their traditions and a diverse multifaith community of learners, equip leaders with vocational practices and tools to sustain their work long-term and intergenerationally, and connect leaders committed to healing the world with peers across religious and cultural difference. Shannon comes to Auburn with 30 years’ experience guiding the Children’s Defense Fund’s partnership with the religious community, including creating and directing CDF’s Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry and the National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths. She is the author of Hope for the Future: Answering God’s Call to Justice for Our Children and co-author of The Just Love Story Bible, along with numerous other publications. Shannon is the mother of two adult children and lives with her husband Sam in Princeton, NJ, where she loves to garden, read, and cook for friends.