Author: Melanie L. Harris

Melanie L. Harris is Professor of Black Feminist Thought and Womanist Theology and Professor of African American Studies at Wake Forest University, and Director of the Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program at Wake Forest School of Divinity. Harris is a leading scholar in ecowomanism, a poet, a professor, and a mother. She weaves her academic work with her artistry as a singer, researcher, and writer. She is ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal church. Harris is the author of many scholarly articles and books, including Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics; Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth- Honoring Faiths; and Faith, Feminism, and Scholarship: The Next Generation (coeditor).��She is the founding director of The Ecowomanist Circle, a nonprofit organization dedicated to climate justice education and empowering ecowomanists and environmental writers.