Jamar A. Boyd II

Pastor

The Rev. Jamar A. Boyd II is senior pastor of Kenwood United Church of Christ in Chicago and associate in the Office of the President at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Boyd was a graduate fellow of The Gift Collaborative of Black Theological Education & Black Faith Traditions. He holds a bachelor of science in sports management from Georgia Southern University and a master of divinity from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology of Virginia Union University. Additionally, he is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Racial Justice & Religion Collective and a board member of the Oikos Institute for Social Impact.

He is a featured contributor in the first volume of “Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition.”