Diane Sherwood was the Associate Director of the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington DC for five years until she died of cancer in 2003. The InterFaith Conference ((IFC) brings together the Baha'i, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jain, Jewish, Latter-day Saints, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Sikh and Zoroastrian faith communities to advance justice, build community and nurture understanding in this region.

"...We come together because our love for God and humanity inspires it; our concern for justice, freedom and peace demands it; and what we can learn from each other requires it. Baha'i, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jain, Jewish, Latter-day Saints, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Sikh and Zoroastrian, through our collaboration in the IFC we intend to be a symbol of moral unity in a broken world."

- from IFC's Vision Statement