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Steve Herrick
Director of External Relations
| E-Mail: | sherrick@aarweb.org |
| Phone: | 1-404-727-7948 |
| Fax: | 1-404-727-7959 |
| Address: | 825 Houston Mill RD NE STE 300 Atlanta, GA 30329-4205 USA |
Steve is Director of External Relations and Director of Religionsource, an AAR referral service for journalists seeking academic sources on specific religion topics. In addition to overseeing media relations, he handles government relations, including facilitating access to religion expertise by law enforcement officials, government directors of prison chaplaincy programs, and public school administrators. He also serves as the staff liaison to the AAR’s Public Understanding of Religion Committee and to its Religion in the Schools Task Force. Steve has been on the AAR staff since 1994.
He has more than twenty years of experience in nonprofit work, including a decade at Amnesty International USA, where he served as director of its Southern Region. For several years, he managed small businesses. Early in his career, he was a public secondary school teacher.
He holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School, where he concentrated on the nonprofit sector, and a master’s degree in political science from Clark Atlanta University, where he concentrated on religion and law.