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Rev. Irene Monroe
Reverend Irene Monroe, author of Let Your Light Shine Like a Rainbow, is a Ford Fellow and doctoral candidate at Harvard Divinity School. Her outreach ministries include the several religion columns she writes: The Religion Thang, for In Newsweekly, the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender newspaper in New England; Faith Matters for The Advocate Magazine, a national gay and lesbian magazine; and Queer Take, for The Witness, a progressive Episcopalian journal. Her writings have also appeared in the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe, and her award-winning essay, “Louis Farrakhan’s Ministry of Misogyny and Homophobia,” was greeted with critical acclaim.
As an African American feminist theologian, Monroe is a sought-after speaker, preacher, and writer about women’s and gender issues. She is also an expert on women’s healing, bodies, and spirituality. A former board member for the Millennium March on Washington 2000, Monroe is currently a national speaker for the American Program Bureau.
Monroe is a graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. She served as a pastor of a Presbyterian African American church in New Jersey before moving to Harvard Divinity School to take up her doctoral studies.
Boston magazine cited Monroe as one of Boston’s 50 Most Intriguing Women and she was profiled in Out magazine as one of the “Out 100: The People Who Rocked 1998.” She has been profiled in the Gay Pride episode of In the Life, which was nominated for an Emmy, and on CNN’s Paula Zhan Now. Monroe was also featured on Caroline Myss’s show, The Journey.
What Others Are Saying About Reverend Irene Monroe.
“A phenomenal woman who has succeeded against all odds.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
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