About

Voices + Visions

Voices and Visions: Islam and Muslims from a Global Perspective is a project of Indiana University comprised of various initiatives and activities that are all dedicated to promoting understanding and dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims. The project aims to:

Increase intercultural understanding by providing access to the voices and visions of Islam and Muslims locally and around the world.
Inform and promote dialogue as it tackles the complexities of Islam and the often complicated relations between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Replace misinformation, mistrust, and oversimplifications with awareness, consideration, dialogue, and a diversity of voices.
Promote accessible scholarship, forthright communication, balanced viewpoints, and the value of the many voices and visions of Islam.

Our team

Derya Doğan

Graduate Student Coordinator

Derya has been with the team since summer 2019 and was one of the Interfaith America co-project leaders which was a sub-project of the Muslim Voices in 2022-2023. She is a double-major Ph.D. candidate in Education Policy Studies and Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures. In her research she focuses on citizenship education, contemporary times of Islamic education through the lens of comparative religious K-12 and international Islamic universities.

Darby Delacy Fitzsimmons

Undergraduate Student Coordinator

Darby FitzSimmons is a sophomore at the O'Neill School studying Law and Public Policy with a minor in Homeland Security. Previously, she worked at the Indiana University African Studies Department and has also run social media for various organizations including United Rural Democrats and Capyverse. At IU, she participates in sketch comedy, Alexander Hamilton Society and is an alumna of the Civic Leaders Center.