Dr. Simran Jeet Singh is Assistant Professor of Interreligious Histories at Union Theological Seminary and author of the national bestseller, The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life (Riverhead, Penguin Random House, 2022). He is Senior Advisor for the Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program, where he previously served as Executive Director. Simran is the host of Wisdom & Practice, produced by The Aspen Institute and PRX, a contributor for TIME, and a columnist for Religion News Service.
Simran is a historian of South Asian religions, with graduate degrees from Harvard Divinity School and Columbia University. He is a Soros Equality Fellow with the Open Society Foundations and an Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Columbia University. He has authored multiple children’s books, the latest of which, A Vaisakhi to Remember, came out this past month. He is currently working on new books for Penguin Random House and for Oxford University Press.
Simran lives in New York City, where he enjoys reading, writing, and chasing his young kids.