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Rev. Traci Blackmon – Healing Communities on the Frontlines of Ferguson
February 28, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FREE
Please join the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Samuel Merritt University for an evening with Reverend Traci Blackmon.
Reverend Blackmon’s signature initiatives have included Healthy Mind, Body, and Spirit, a mobile faith-based outreach program she designed to impact health outcomes in impoverished areas. Rev. Blackmon’s communal leadership and work in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown, Jr., in Ferguson, MO has gained her both national and international recognition and audiences from the White House to the Carter Center to the Vatican. She was appointed to the Ferguson Commission by Governor Jay Nixon and to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships for the White House by President Barack H. Obama. This year, Rev. Blackmon co-authored the newly released White Privilege curriculum through the United Church of Christ.
Reverend Traci Blackmon is the Acting Executive Minister of Justice & Witness Ministries of The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ The King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Birmingham – Southern College (1985), and a Master of Divinity degree from Eden Theological Seminary(2009).
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