Across Our Divides: The Promise of Moral Courage
Across our Divides: The Promise of Moral Courage, our final Faith & Work lunch of the year and a companion event to our annual Scoper Lecture , took place on March 27th in the Dome Room with National Program Director for the One America Movement, Jazzalyn Livingston and Director of the Citizen Scholar Development at UVA, Andrus Ashoo .
Jazzalyn Livingston serves as the National Program Director at the One America Movement, where she leads the organization’s multi-faith grassroots initiatives across the country. She supports an outreach team that brings faith leaders together across religious, political, and racial divides to act and speak against toxic polarization. Her work focuses on building long-term collaboratives that strengthen multi-faith and cross-partisan relationships, cultivate local leadership, and empower faith communities to address shared challenges. Jazzalyn was a 2025 Public Life Fellow with the Center for Christianity & Public Life, where she explored how faith can shape public life and advance democratic renewal. Jazzalyn has earned degrees in Public Health and Psychology and in Multicultural Counseling and Social Justice Education. A proud native of South-Central Los Angeles, CA she now calls Washington, DC, home.
Andrus G. Ashoo has been with the University of Virginia for over a decade and is currently the Director of the Office of Citizen Scholar Development, which is home to fellowships & undergraduate research. He centers the office’s approach to advising around pillars of dignity, agency, competency, and virtue. He and his colleagues prioritize honesty, humility, curiosity, and courage as they support students in their development as citizens and scholars. His work displays his ideal for the University: that it should be a place to explore and be challenged. He is a member of Heterodox Academy and has partnered with HxA to bring Moral Courage College to UVA. When not at the university, you are likely to find him at Trinity Presbyterian Church, coaching youth soccer, or with his family, where he fulfills his most important roles as a husband and a father.
