She Said What She Said: Navigating Faith Through Black Women's Voices

Rev. Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones (Special Guest) 

Rev. Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones Assistant Professor of Theology and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. 

Rev. Dr. Amey Adkins-Jones is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Duke Divinity School, she received her Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University in 2016 with a Certificate in Feminist Theory. She was the first Black woman to graduate from the doctoral program in Christian theology and ethics. Rev. Dr. Adkins-Jones first book, Immaculate Misconceptions: Black Mariology, Freedom, Fugitivity (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) is a Black feminist theological account of the icon of the Black Madonna and the rise of the global sex trade. She is at work on a second book project, See No Evil, which thinks about artificial intelligence and anti-Blackness.

Outside of academia, Rev. Dr. Adkins-Jones is an ordained Baptist minister who frequently preaches and teaches around the country, and brings pastoral sensibility to her work centering social justice. She is a practicing birth worker, a trained iconographer, and has a career background in UX Copywriting and Design. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. A ‘displaced Southerner,’ she joyfully builds community and hospitality with her beloved spouse, the Rev. Dr. Timothy Adkins-Jones, and their four joyfully hilarious children, in Newark, NJ.

 

Richelle Terese (Host)

Richelle is the NAACP New Jersey State Conference Communications, Press and Publicity Committee Chair. and a 2021 Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) Senior Fellow. She is committed to her work as a freelance marketer, assisting community organizations with communications, media, graphic design, community engagement, research, campaigns, and program planning/coordination. Richelle studied at Rutgers University majoring in Africana Studies (Black studies), History and Education.