#  MRPL Alumni Career Snapshots 

 



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  [### Building Grassroots Communities

 ](/news/2025/12/10/building-grassroots-communities) December 10, 2025 

**Sara Smirin, MRPL '24**, credits HDS with helping her to interrogate assumptions, to be capacious in her thinking, and to always embrace the moral imagination.



 

 

   ![Sara Smirin headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/Sara%20Smirin%20wide%20crop.jpg?itok=w3OCKCVx) 

 



 

 

   [### Building Religious and Cultural Literacy

 ](/news/2025/08/28/building-religious-and-cultural-literacy) August 28, 2025 

**John Camardella, MRPL '22**, a high school educator in Mt. Prospect, IL, works both in and out of the classroom to build religious and cultural literacy in his community.



 

 

   ![John Camardella headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Camardella_Headshot%20thumb.jpg?itok=36d-z7rM) 

 



 

 

   [### Harvard Divinity School Alum Advances Religious Literacy in Hollywood

 ](/news/2025/08/20/harvard-divinity-school-alum-advances-religious-literacy-hollywood) August 20, 2025 

**Mario Cader-Frech, MRPL '24**, the director of DeeperDive.org, is training media executives and screenwriters in Hollywood to deepen their understanding of religions.



 

 

   ![Mario Cader Frech](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Mario_Cader_010.JPG?itok=nnyGhvbw)