Lisa Sharon Harper - BIO

Lisa Sharon Harper is the founder and president of Freedom Road, a groundbreaking consulting group that crafts experiences that bring common understanding and common commitments that lead to common action toward a more just world.

Lisa is a public theologian whose writing, speaking, activism and training has sparked and fed the fires of re-formation in the church from Ferguson and Charlottesville to South Africa, Brazil, Australia, and Ireland. Lisa’s book, The Very Good Gospel, was named 2016 “Book of the Year,” and the Huffington Post identified Lisa as one of 50 Women Religious Leaders to Celebrate on International Women’s Day. Her much-anticipated book, Fortune: How Race Broke My Family And The World--And How To Repair It All, is now available!