Chaplain. educator. Podcaster. Writer.


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Vanessa Zoltan has a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis, an MS in Nonprofit Management from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MDiv from Harvard Divinity School.

She is an atheist chaplain who teaches non-denominational chaplaincy at Harvard Divinity School. She is the CEO and Founder of Not Sorry Productions, which produces the podcasts Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, The Real Question Hot & Bothered and Let’s Ask Taylor Swift.

She writes books, does chaplaincy and runs pilgrimages and walking tours exploring sacred reading and writing.

Vanessa loves reading, musical theater, movies, trying and failing to keep up on contemporary fiction, walking and beginner baking. She lives in Massachusetts. Here is her dog, Rory.

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