Reverend Cynthia Brix, Ph.D., is an ordained interfaith minister, co-founder of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International, and Co-Director of Satyana Institute, who has dedicated her life to healing and reconciliation between women and men and people of all genders through 280 intensive trainings organized across twelve countries. Holding an M.Div. from Iliff School of Theology (2006), double M.A. in wellness management and applied gerontology, and honorary doctorate from California Institute of Integral Studies, Brix formerly served as campus minister at the University of Colorado for United Ministries of Higher Education while co-chairing the Race Relations Committee for the City of Muncie, Indiana, and serving in numerous leadership positions for Planned Parenthood in Dallas and Indiana. A long-time student of Eknath Easwaran’s Passage Meditation, Brix leads retreats on interfaith spirituality and co-organized five international conferences on interspirituality, including one that brought together women spiritual masters from Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu traditions, producing the DVD “Cultivating Women’s Spiritual Mastery” from this gathering. Contributing author of “Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men” and co-author of “Women Healing Women: A Model of Hope for Oppressed Women Everywhere,” Brix’s work demonstrates how spiritual practice and practical social justice action can combine to address deep wounds between genders while fostering reconciliation that honors both feminine and masculine principles. Her approach integrates contemplative practice with systemic change work, recognizing that healing gender relations requires both inner transformation and outer structural reform.
Why their voice matters: Brix demonstrates how contemplative practice and social justice work can inform each other, showing that healing gender relations and other systemic inequities requires both inner spiritual development and practical reconciliation processes that create safe containers for addressing historical wounds while fostering genuine understanding across differences.