Jenn Lindsay is an American sociologist, documentary filmmaker, and singer-songwriter based in Rome, Italy. She completed her doctoral degree in the social science of religion at Boston University under Dr. Nancy T. Ammerman. For her doctoral research, Dr. Lindsay studied how religious difference affects personal relationships–families, friendships and in interfaith dialogue. She has been faculty or visiting faculty at Richmond University; University of California, Rome; Saint John’s University; and John Cabot University.
Jenn hails from San Diego, CA, raised by a religiously eclectic family whose members draw from progressive Jewish, Christian Scientist, Presbyterian, Unitarian Universalist, Hindu and secular humanist traditions. For a decade prior to attending Union Theological Seminary, Jenn worked in the film and music industries as a composer, film editor, performer and documentary filmmaker. Jenn focused on playwriting at Stanford University (’01) and on arts management at the Yale University School of Drama (’05).