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#BRSCC2018
Speakers
Black Religion & Social Activism
Dr. Brad Braxton, Director of the Center for the Study of African American Religious Life at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
Dr. Gloria White-Hammond, Founder and Executive Director of My Sister's Keeper
Karlene Griffiths Sekou, BLM Boston, Founder of Boston Books & Breakfast
Dr. Brad Braxton
Gloria White-Hammond
Faith & Incarceration
Rev. Nikia Roberts, Founder of Reverend Daughter Ministries, Scholar of Religion and Punishment
Edyson Julio, Writer, Prison-Reform Educator, Creative Writing Instructor at Rikers Island Correctional Facility
Rev. Ashley Lipscomb, Chaplain's Office at Essex County Correctional Facility
Edyson Julio
Ashley Lipscomb
Sexuality & Queerness
Rev. Brandon Crowley, Pastor of Historic Myrtle Baptist Church, PhD Candidate Boston University (Church and Society)
Candace Benbow, Creator of Red Lipstick Theology
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Brandon Crowley
Candice Benbow
Religion & Wellness
Kameelah Rashad, Founder/President of Muslim Wellness Foundation
Myisha Cherry, Author of The Moral Psychology of Anger, UnMute Podcast
Kameelah Rashaad
Myisha Cherry
Black Religion & Culture
Dr. Eric Williams, Curator of Religion at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
Dr. Kyrah Daniels, Professor of Art History and African & Africa Diaspora Studies, Author of When The Spirit Is Ill (In progress)
Eric Williams
Navigating Identity
Dr. Funlayo Wood, African Religion
Janan Graham-Russell, Scholar of Womanist Theology and Contemporary Mormonism
Khalil Abdur-Rashid, Muslim Chaplain of Harvard Univeristy
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Funlayo Wood
Janan Graham
Power in the Black Religious Space Dialogue
Rev. Dr. Carlyle Fielding Stewart III, Pastor of Empowerment Church
Open Mic Night
Claudia Wilson, Poet
Steve Charles, Poet
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