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Charlene Brown

Charlene Brown holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School. She has served in an array of ministry contexts, including as national director of Intervarsity Black Campus Ministries, and is an ordained pastor in the Association of Vineyard Churches. She lives in Durham, N.C., where she enjoys engaging issues of race and reconciliation in the church and the community.

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