Rebecca Cohen

Rebecca discovered her calling for dialogue as a freshman in college. Since then, she has worked to fulfill that vocation in service to the Catholic Church.

She is currently the Program and Research Specialist in the USCCB’s Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. In this capacity, she staffs the USCCB dialogues with the American Jewish community and maintains relations for the bishops.  

In the past, she has interned with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Church Relations (now, Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust), the InterFaith Conference (now, Council) of Metropolitan Washington, and the Secretariat.  

She holds an MA in Historical and Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC; a certificate in Interreligious Studies and an STL (Licentiate of Sacred Theology) in Ecumenism from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy, where she was a Russell Berrie fellow; a certificate in Islamic Studies from the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome; and a two-year diploma in Jewish Studies from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Religion and Culture at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

As part of her Gregorian studies, she was awarded the Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn Fellowship for a semester of study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. She has been a participant several times in the Emerging Leaders Conference organized by the International Liaison Committee, and invited to present papers on the previous two instances in Jerusalem, Israel and Vilnius, Lithuania.