Rebekah Coffman is a curator, public historian and researcher whose work explores the intersections of religious heritage, the built environment, sustainability and collective memory. As Curator of Religion and Community History at the Chicago History Museum, she leads the Chicago Sacred Initiative, an interdisciplinary programme that brings together archival repair, research, writing, community engagement and exhibition-making to foreground the city's diverse religious and cultural histories. In 2019, she founded the Sacred Shift Project, an ongoing international survey of urban religious buildings adapted for ritual reuse by diasporic communities, examining questions of intangible and contested heritage through the evolving lives of sacred spaces.