Christena Cleveland, Ph.D. is a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. 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.
She recently published her third full-length book, God is a Black Woman (Harper Collins), which details her 400-mile walking pilgrimage across central France in search of ancient Black Madonna statues and examines the relationship between race, gender, and cultural perceptions of the Divine.