Berkley Center

Beverly Goines is a native of the Washington metropolitan area and is committed to the ecumenical and interfaith movement as a means to repair the political, social, and economic fractures that have been caused by religious intolerance. Ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), she was called to National City Christian Church in Washington, DC, as a Lilly Endowment Fellow, where she currently serves as the assistant pastor. Goines taught Jewish-Christian relations at the Catholic University of America and worked in Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is currently the associate director of the Disciples Center for Public Witness, where she works to advance social justice efforts through political advocacy, and an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University. Goines was selected as a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and Georgetown University during the 2018-2019 academic year, during which she continued her doctoral research on ecumenism and black churches.