Dr. Breyer is Executive Director of the Interfaith Center of New York, a nationally-recognized nonprofit that brings together diverse grassroots religious leaders with civic officials to address New York City’s most pressing social concerns. In her time at ICNY, she has focused on teaching religious literacy to teachers, social workers and police officers; preventing bias crimes; and building multi-faith advocacy coalition promoting criminal justice and immigration reform.

Since September 11 2001, Dr. Breyer ‘s international interfaith work has included an NYC Episcopal-Muslim initiative to rebuild a mosque in Afghanistan north of Kabul as well as a girls’ school and health clinic in Wardak Province. Dr. Breyer is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and she attended the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Annual Christian-Muslim Peace Summits in Beruit, Lebanon (2012), Rome, Italy (2014), and Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran (2016) as a member of the Episcopal/Anglican Delegation. She was also part of an Interfaith Mission for Peace & Understanding, in Indonesia, Jordan, Israel, and Ramallah in 2012 supported by the Indonesian Embassy to the United States.

An Episcopal Priest in the Diocese of New York, Breyer has been Associate Priest at St. Philip’s Church in Harlem since 2012. She is the author of The Close: A Young Woman’s First Year at Seminary (Basic Books 2000) as well as several chapter contributions, op-eds, and articles. Her Doctoral Dissertation Against Islamophobia: Interfaith Activism as Christian Peacemaking  was in Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary (May 2017).