Samir Selmanovic is Director of Consulting at Get Storied, Inc., a transformational storytelling company, and the Executive Director of Faith House Manhattan, a community of communities that brings together people of different religious backgrounds. A dynamic community leader since his high school days in the former Yugoslavia, Samir was born into complexity with a Muslim father, Christian mother, and an atheist school system, with capitalism to the West and communism to the East. Samir’s passion for problem solving propelled him through his B.Sc. in Engineering, M.A. in Psychology, M.Div., and Ph.D.

His 10 years of community leadership as a progressive Christian pastor include recognition by the organization Muslims Against Terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 in New York City, co-founding a vibrant young adult congregation in Southern California, founding the non-profit Faith House Manhattan, and authoring It’s Really All About God: How Islam, Atheism, and Judaism Made Me a Better Christian, a book about collaboration with the “religious other.” His work has been profiled in The New York Times.