“Why We Must Remember Juneteenth”
Rev. Angela Denise Davis, M.Div., M.S., is an ordained minister, public speaker, activist, and community music teacher. She is the founder of Uke Griot, a program that focuses on
awakening musical skills in adults via the ukulele to increase social engagement and foster joy in making music. She also founded Sister Harriet, a spiritual collective created for queer
women to share their best selves and to find meaning in the sacredness of their lives. Her work as a Minister centers on the fusion of art and spirituality to enrich the ways we move in personal and social spaces. In addition, she is the creator, host, and producer of the ZAMI NOBLA Podcast.
As a Blind, Black Lesbian her public speaking centers around justice issues located at the
intersection of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. She believes her call in
life is to facilitate conversations and theological reflections along the fence line of those
differences. She challenges her audiences to wrestle with the difficult and to support each
other ‘s journey into new territory.
She is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University where she earned a B.A. in Art. She also holds a Master of Divinity from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, and a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling from Georgia State University.
- Facilitator- Jan Lister
- Musician- Jean Heinrich