Julie Todd

Rev. Dr. Julie Todd is a scholar-activist living in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She received her Ph.D. in 2012 from University of Denver-Iliff School of Theology Joint Program in Religious and Theological Studies. The title of her dissertation was “Evaluating Violence and (Non)violence: A Critical, Practical Theology of Social Change.” As John Wesley Iliff Senior Lecturer in Justice and Peace Studies, she teaches all of her courses online in the justice and peace curriculum. Her scholarship focuses on social change theory and praxis, violence and (non)violence, and matters of privilege, oppression and solidarity across axes of difference. She is a published essayist and poet on matters of justice-seeking and the spiritual life. As an activist, she works in her community to create transformative, grassroots spaces for social justice education and practice. As an ordained elder in! the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church, she served for nine years as pastor of small, urban churches in New England. Currently, she advocates locally and nationally to end the anti-LGBTQ policies and practices of her denomination through the group Love Prevails. She is a practicing herbalist and aromatherapist working with Crescent Moon Healing, a social justice healing collective in Lawrence, MA.

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Location: Lawrence, MA