Oluwatomisin Oredein

Professor, Brite Divinity School

Oluwatomisin “Tomi” Oredein is an assistant professor in Black religious traditions, constructive theology and ethics and the director of the Black Church Studies program at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. Anchored in her American African identity, her scholastic and creative work engages theopoetics, womanist theology and ethics, postcolonial and decolonial thought, and Black theology from an African diasporic perspective. She is the author of “The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism and Communal Practice,” an award-winning book detailing the connection between African women’s theologian Mercy Oduyoye’s life and her theological formation.