Tim Brauhn serves most of his time as the Director of Operations for The 1010 Project, a Denver humanitarian agency that provides business and entrepreneurial education in Kenya by partnering with community-based organizations. He is also a Project Manager for Spotted Koi, a business and website consulting agency. Tim also consults for a variety of social entrepreneurial and interfaith initiatives. He developed FaithNews, a multifaith mobile app for Islamic Networks Group, a nonprofit educational organization that promotes religious literacy and mutual respect. Tim has previously served as an Online Community Mobilizer with Changemakers, the premier global online community of social entrepreneurship and innovation.
Tim was an inaugural member of the Faiths Act Fellowship, an elite international program for interfaith leaders in the US, UK, and Canada, where he acted as an ambassador for the Millennium Development Goals. The Faiths Act Fellowship is a collaboration between the Interfaith Youth Core and Tony Blair Faith Foundation. He worked in the San Francisco Bay Area to build an intercollegiate interfaith coalition to fight malaria deaths.
As a writer, Tim is currently a Contributing Scholar at State of Formation, a community of emerging religious and ethical leaders, speaking from their convictions about the most pressing issues of the day and fostering each other’s growth through online dialogue and meaningful engagement.
Tim received his MA in International Studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver with a concentration in Religion and Politics in the Middle East and Central Asia. He also has a BA in English Language and Literature from Aurora University in Illinois, where he focused on feminist literary criticism and sociolinguistics. Before moving to Denver, he was actively involved in interfaith peacebuilding in the Chicago area, working as a resident fellow at Aurora University’s Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action and collaborating with the Niagara Foundation, Interfaith Youth Core, and Hesed House.
He’s very interested in interfaith cooperation, the social-semantic web, and the future of the nonprofit community. When he’s not reading, he enjoys cycling, writing,cooking, languages, beer, wine, kombucha, and tea. Tim Brauhn is an interesting person, and you have to take his word for it. In the picture above, he has just finished climbing a 9100′ volcano in Kenya. No joke.
