Berkley Center

Marilyn Charity is a sales associate at Washington Fine Properties. She is also the treasurer of the capitol city chapter of the Links, Inc., the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organization of extraordinary women who are committed to enriching, sustaining, and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry.

Terrence L. Johnson is a professor of African American religious studies at Harvard Divinity School. He was a senior fellow at the Berkley Center from February to September 2022, after having previously served as a senior research fellow from April 2019 to January 2022. From 2015 to 2022 he was an associate professor of religion and politics at Georgetown University's Department of Government, as well as an affiliate member of the Department of African American Studies and member of the executive committee of the Center for Jewish Civilization. Johnson’s research interests include African American political thought, ethics, American religions, and the role of religion in public life. He is the author of Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue (2022, with Jacques Berlinerblau); We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter (2021); and Tragic Soul-Life: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy (2012). He also serves as co-editor of the Duke University Press Series Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Johnson holds a B.A. from Morehouse College, an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Brown University.

Monique Moultrie is associate professor of African American studies and religious studies at Georgia State University. Her research interests include sexual ethics, African-American religions, and gender and sexuality studies. Moultrie is author of Passionate and Pious: Religious Media and Black Women's Sexuality (2017) and co-editor of A Guide for Women in Religion: Making Your Way from A to Z (2014, 2nd edition).

Rev. Dr. Shively T. J. Smith serves as assistant professor of New Testament at Boston University School of Theology. She is the author of Strangers to Family: Diaspora and First Peter’s Invention of God’s Household (2016).