Christena Cleveland, Ph.D., is a social psychologist, public theologian, activist, and author of God is a Black Woman. She is the founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal which supports a more equitable world by nurturing skillful justice advocacy and the depth to act on it. Christena is a Ford Foundation Fellow who has held faculty positions at several institutions of higher education—most recently at Duke University’s Divinity School, where she was the first African-American and first female director of the Duke Center for Reconciliation. Her work has been featured in a number of major media outlets including the History Channel, PBS, Essence Magazine, Washington Post, NPR, and BBC Radio.
