Megan Sweas is the editor and director of communications at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at University of Southern California. As such, she manages CRCC's website and helps share research about how religions change and make change in the world. A freelance journalist, Sweas is the author of "Putting Education to Work: How Cristo Rey High Schools are Transforming Urban Education." She writes about social and economic justice issues and world religions for publications such as GlobalPost, Religion News Service, National Catholic Reporter and Religion Dispatches. She traveled to Italy in 2014 to report on Europe's immigration crisis as a recipient of the International Reporting Project's religion reporting fellowship.