Lisa Sharon Harper Biography
Lisa Harper is a well-known author, Bible teacher, and inspirational speaker who in addition to serving as the founding executive director of New York Faith & Justice, the organization at the center of a new ecumenical movement to eradicate poverty in New York City.
She also serves as the Chief Church Engagement Officer for Sojourners, a Christian organization that advocates for social, cultural, and environmental justice.
Lisa Sharon Harper Education (Where did Lisa Harper go to school?)
Harper received her Master of Human Rights degree from Columbia University in New York City. She educated Christian leaders in South Africa to pull the levers of their new democracy toward racial fairness and economic inclusion, and she trained and energized evangelicals in St. Louis and Baltimore to engage in the 2014 struggle for justice in Ferguson and the 2015 healing process in Baltimore.
Lisa Sharon Harper Age (When was Lisa Harper born?)
She is 59 years old as of 24 August 2022. She was born on 24 August 1963 in the United States of America.
Lisa Sharon Harper Husband(is Lisa Sharon Harper married?)
She is not married.
Lisa Sharon Harper Books (Lisa Sharon Harper The Very Good Gospel)
Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican…or Democrat (The New Press, 2008); Left Right and Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics (Elevate, 2011); Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith (Zondervan, 2014); and the critically acclaimed The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right (Waterbrook, a division of Penguin Random House, 2016). The Very Good Gospel, named the “2016 Book of the Year” by the Englewood Review of Books, investigates God’s desire for the wholeness of all relationships in light of today’s news.
Lisa Sharon Haper Podcast (Career)
Lisa is the host of the Freedom Road Podcast, a cohost of The FOUR Podcast, and the author of “The Truth Is…”, a weekly piece on Substack. Fortune: How Race Broke My Family And The World-And How To Repair It All, her much-anticipated book, is finally available!
Harper is the founder and president of FreedomRoad.us, a consulting group dedicated to closing the story gap in our country by creating platforms and experiences that foster shared understanding, common commitment, and common action.
Harper, a Sojourners Magazine columnist, and an Auburn Theological Seminary Senior Fellow, has been on TVOne, FoxNews Online, NPR, and Al Jazeera America. Her work has appeared in CNN Belief Blog, The National Civic Review, Sojourners, The Huffington Post, Relevant Magazine, and Essence Magazine, among other publications. She has published numerous articles on shalom and governance, immigration reform, health care reform, poverty, racial and gender justice, climate change, and transformational civic engagement.
Ms. Harper was designated one of 50 important women religious leaders to honor on International Women’s Day by The Huffington Post in 2015. The Religion Communicators Council honored Ms. Harper’s monthly Freedom Road Podcast’s two-part series “Best Radio or Podcast Series of the Year” in 2019. The series was titled The Roots and Fruits of Immigrant Labor Exploitation in the United States. In 2020, Ms. Harper won The Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth, and Reconciliation’s Bridge Award in recognition of her commitment to bridging divides and strengthening the beloved community.
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