A senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, she directs the centre's work on religion and global development.

She is executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, an NGO working to improve relations between different sectors and institutions.

In September 2022, she was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at the US Agency for International Development.

She has participated in prayer meetings for peace organised by the Community of Sant'Egidio since 2002.