Rev. Joanne M. Braxton

Rev. Joanne M. Braxton, PhD is an African American woman, an ordained minister in the Eastern Virginia Association of the United Church of Christ, a recent Davis Visiting Professor in Judeo-Christian Values at Ursinus College, and a Fellow of the Hastings Center. In 2016-17 she was David B. Larson Fellow in Spirituality and Health at the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center, where she examined thousands of original documents for her project, “Tree of Life: Spirituality and Well-Being in the African American Experience.”