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Brie Loskota Named Executive Director of CRCC<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n
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The USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture starts its 20th year with a new leader. Brie Loskota<\/a> was appointed CRCC’s executive director by Dani Byrd, interim dean of the USC Dornsife College of Arts & Sciences, on January 1, 2016.<\/p>\n

Donald Miller<\/a>, who promised his wife, Lorna, that he would retire from the executive director position before his 70th birthday, will remain involved in CRCC’s research agenda as a scholar of religion.<\/p>\n

CRCC grew out of a research project that Miller undertook with fellow religion professor John Orr on the role of religious organizations responding to Los Angeles’ civil unrest in 1992. After that project, Miller and Orr would go on to co-found the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture in 1996 as a place that brought scholars together with policy-makers, religious community leaders and foundations interested in creating change in their communities. From the beginning, they set out to create a cross-disciplinary and entrepreneurial environment that allowed for a unique mix of research, evaluation and capacity-building work.<\/p>\n

Miller first hired Loskota to run a conference in 2002 and saw her leadership potential. She joined the staff of CRCC in 2004 and eventually became the center’s managing director.<\/p>\n

“Brie is truly exceptional in terms of her abilities,” Miller said. “When you combine her creativity, high level of intelligence, ability to interact with people and ability to make smart decisions, that’s the sort of leader CRCC needs.”<\/p>\n

“I will continue to build on two decades of Don’s and the center’s forward-looking research and its impact in the community,” Loskota said. “As more and more people find a renewed interest in the way religion is shaping our world, the work of CRCC has never been more timely.”<\/p>\n

Today, CRCC’s work falls into four activities, with research grounding the other three areas:\n<\/p>\n