Author

Lerita Coleman Brown

Speaker, spiritual director

Lerita Coleman Brown is a retreat leader, speaker, spiritual director/companion and professor emerita of psychology at Agnes Scott College. Brown is the author of “When the Heart Speaks, Listen: Discovering Inner Wisdom,” as well as numerous articles and essays. She has been featured in PBS documentaries about Howard Thurman and the Black church. She lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

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