Jacqueline C. Rivers is the Executive Director and Senior Fellow for Social Science and Policy of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies. She was a Senior Fellow at The King’s College in New York City; a Hutchins Fellow in the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University, and served as a lecturer in Sociology at Harvard University. She holds a PhD from Harvard University, and her publications include The Paradox of the Black Church and Religious Freedom in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal; a chapter in the volume Not Just Good but Beautiful, a book co-authored with Pope Francis, N.T. Wright, Jonathan Sacks and other scholars; another in Race and Covenant: Recovering the Religious Roots for American Reconciliation and a chapter co-authored with Orlando Patterson in The Cultural Matrix published by Harvard University Press.