Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Assistant director and lecturer, Center for Public Theology & Public Policy, Yale Divinity School

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is assistant director for partnerships and fellowships and a lecturer at the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy at Yale Divinity School. He is a writer, speaker and the co-founder, with his wife Leah, of Rutba House, a new monastic community in Durham, North Carolina, where he lives. He is associate minister at St. John’s Baptist Church and directs the School for Conversion, a nonprofit community organization. Wilson-Hartgrove is a graduate of Eastern University and Duke Divinity School.

He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the daily prayer guide, "Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals," "New Monasticism" and "Revolution of Values." His most recent book, co-written with the Rev. Dr. William Barber II, is “White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy.”