Spiritual Bathing

Nadine Epstein is the editor and publisher of Moment Magazine and founder and executive director of the Center for Creative Change. She is also founder of the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative. An award-winning journalist, her work has appeared in Moment, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, The Christian Science Monitor, Ms. and other publications. She covered politics and news in the Chicago bureau of The New York Times and at The City News Bureau of Chicago, then covered the U.S.-Mexico border while based in Arizona. She also covered rural America for seven years. She is a recipient of a prestigious 1990 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan as well as many grants including the Washington, D.C. Commission on the Arts and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. She taught in the Master's Program in Journalism at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a University Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University. She has co-written three books, contributed to anthology collections and co-written a documentary film, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. She is also an artist: Her solo photography exhibition, Insides A woman's Shadow, is currently at the Jules Backman Gallery at the Hebrew Union College Museum in New York. She lives in Washington D.C.