Eshita Rahman – Instafaith, Infofaith, Interfaith

Hi folks of Marsh Chapel, the Boston area, Boston University, and anyone else who stumbles across this webpage! My name is Eshita and I am a junior at Boston University majoring in Political Science and minoring in Deaf Studies. Feel free to visit my bio here to learn a little bit more about experiences with religion and spirituality growing up, as well as what motivates me to be an interfaith fellow at Marsh Chapel.

During this fellowship, something I’ve learned about myself is that I love to make authentic connections with people and facilitate some form of community healing. This is evident in my roles as a Student Ambassador at the Howard Thurman Center and a Social Media Content Creator for the Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Mental Health Collective. To me, interfaith work goes hand in hand with healing work; a group of people with a spectrum of beliefs surrounding religion and/or spirituality come together to find commonalities and work towards a common goal of understanding each other and serving other people. Thus, came along my project: Instafaith, Infofaith, Interfaith.

The purpose of this project is to increase Marsh Chapel’s social media presence and connect with a wider audience of students, Bostonians, & religious organizations and institutions. Some steps I have already taken include changing the Instagram bio to better capture the mission of Marsh Chapel and Boston University; following more Boston University students, organizations, and departments; following religious institutions from other schools; and creating interfaith content. I have already posted about former Marsh Chapel Dean Dr. Howard Thurman to honor his legacy and interfaith work during. Black History Month, as well as the Jewish holiday Purim. I plan to create more content about various religious holidays and theologians as the semester progresses.

I also plan to collaborate with my fellow wonderful fellows – Anna, Stella, Aimee, Simran, & Xan – to capture and amplify their projects on our Marsh Chapel social media pages.

Feel free to follow @bumarshchapel on Instagram and check back on this blog to see how this project goes as the semester progresses!

With love and light,

Eshita