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 Dr.
Iva E. Carruthers is General Secretary of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor
Conference, Inc. Founded to strengthen the capacity of the African
American faith community and its leaders to address the social
justice agenda in the Black church, the Proctor Conference
represents a cross section of the most dynamic and progressive
African American faith leaders and their congregations in the United
States.She has had an active academic life and ministry in the areas of justice and social policy. She is Founder and Director of Lois House, an urban retreat center, serves as a Trustee for the Chicago Theological Seminary and is an active member of Trinity United Church of Christ. She is Professor Emeritus and former Chairperson of the Sociology Department at Northeastern Illinois University and former president of a computer technology firm. She has consulted and lectured extensively in the U.S. and throughout Africa and the Diaspora. She served as Executive Director of the Black Theology Project. Author of many publications in several fields, her publication, The Church and Reparations: An African American Perspective, was distributed by her denomination in several languages at the 2001 U.N. World Conference Against Racism. She received the Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University and a Master in Theological Studies degree from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. |
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