Michael Reid Trice

Spehar-Halligan Endowed Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement at Seattle University

Dr. Michael Reid Trice is the founder of Religica and editor-in-chief of the popular online journal, The Interfaith Observer both virtual and multimedia platforms that advance religious pluralism and healthy democracy in the world.

Trice’s first book, Encountering Cruelty, won the humanities award at Loyola University, Chicago. He participated on His Holiness, Pope Francis’ Vatican Covid-19 Commission through the Parliament of the World’s Religions, served as a fellow at the Science for Seminaries program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Among his scholarship, he recently co-edited two multi-author volumes with Georgetown University Press – Gratitude Injury, and Repair in a Pandemic Age (2025) and Discerning Leadership: Responsibility and Transformation (2027). Trice participates on national and international boards in his field and serves on the Multilateral Advisory Group on the UN Multifaith Advisory Council.

He teaches at both CEIE-SU and in the Center for Leadership Formation in Executive Leadership in the Executive MBA Program at the Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University.