Authors

Alessandra Harris
Novelist, wife, mother, and BCM co-founder. Degrees in Comparative Religious studies and Middle East Studies and currently studying in the Diocese of San Jose's Institute for Leadership in Ministry.

Ali Mumbach
Houston, Texas native in first year of graduate school at Howard University, studying to get her master’s degree in sociology. She is the graduate assistant for the HU Bison Catholic campus ministry.

Ansel Augustine
New Orleans Area Director for Vagabond Missions. Has served on the board of directors for the National Catholic Young Adult Ministry Association and the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry.

Ashley Paul
Student in Colorado graduating from high school in 2023. Passionate about diversity and activism, and focuses on representation from many perspectives, including religion.
BCM Staff
Founded in October 2020. Amplifying Black Catholic voices.

Br Herman Johnson, OP
Dominican religious brother in the Province of St. Martin de Porres. Teacher of Spanish at Xavier University of Louisiana. Master's degrees in theology and counseling and a doctorate in Spanish.
Briana Jansky
Freelance Writer, Author, Blogger, and host of podcast Geeks For Jesus. Diocese of Tyler, TX.

Cory Frontin
Lay Catholic who hails from the Washington, DC area but is currently stranded in Boston.

Douglas M. Stringer
Business, Political, and Government Relations Consultant in DC and proud member of St Augustine Catholic Church. Currently serving as the Candidate Outreach Director for Democrats for Life of America.

Fr Anthony Bozeman, SSJ
Pastor of the Church of the Transfiguration in Los Angeles, host of the "Turned Up on the Word!" podcast, as well as a revivalist and liturgist.

Fr Jeffery Ott, OP
Fr. Jeffery Ott, OP, is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Martin de Porres (opsouth.org) and pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Atlanta, Georgia (lourdesatlanta.org).

Fr Joseph Brown, SJ
Joseph A. Brown, SJ, Ph.D. is a native of East St. Louis, Illinois and a Catholic priest. He currently teaches Africana studies at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

Fr Nnaemeka Ali, OMI
Born and raised in Eastern Nigeria and serving at the Innu First Nation communities of Ekuanitshit (Mingan) and Matimekush-Lac John (Schefferville) at the Coastal Shores of Quebec in Canada.
Guest Writer
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Isaiah Brickus
Graduate in public policy and African American studies from the University of Maryland at College Park, a Lay Dominican, FOCUS missionary at Temple University, and prison ministry volunteer.

Jari C. Honora
Jari C. Honora is a New Orleans native with Black Catholic roots dating back more than two centuries in Louisiana. He works in the Williams Research Center of the Historic New Orleans Collection.

Jenario D. Morgan
Native Detroiter, resident of South Bend and father of two. For 12 years, I taught theology in Detroit, where I was the first diversity director for the local KoC. (Also a former Grand Knight.)

Louis Damani Jones
Graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis and co-host of the Living Communion podcast. He is also the recipient of the 2020 Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award from the USCCB.

Nancy Sangwa Saro
Neonatal ICU Nurse and student of Bioethics. Rwandan-American and member of the Emmanuel Community, an association of the faithful of pontifical right. Enjoy scribbling poems when the mood strikes me.

Nate Tinner-Williams
Co-founder and editor of Black Catholic Messenger. ThM student w/ the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.

National Association of Black Catholic Administrators
Providing a forum for diocesan Black Catholic ministry directors to gather and share their collective resources to address the spiritual needs, issues and concerns facing the Black Catholic community.

National Black Sisters' Conference
The National Black Sisters' Conference (NBSC) was established in 1968 to educate, support, and communicate to African American women religious.

Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ
Teaching in the psychology department at Creighton University, where I am also a psychotherapist. I enjoy jazz, traveling, and learning new languages; and I play the guitar, harmonica, and drums.
Preslaysa Williams
Preslaysa Williams is a Catholic revert and novelist based in Virginia. Her heartwarming contemporary romance, A Lowcountry Bride, releases on June 1, 2021.

Ralph Moore
Lifelong Catholic who has served on various committees on race, racism, and poverty for the Baltimore Archdiocese. Columnist for the Afro-American and member of the St. Ann Social Justice Committee.

Rana Irby
Freelance writer from Detroit, Michigan focused on the intersections of faith and culture

Ronald E. Smith
Lifelong Catholic who enjoys writing. Parishioner at St. Edward the Confessor Church in Dana Point, CA. He and his wife Sandy recently founded Friends of St. Kizito Rubuguri Primary School in Uganda.
Sara Chinakwe
Wife, mother, teacher, and children’s ministry leader. She encourages women and children to pursue God’s purpose and embrace their God-given identity.

Stephen Staten
BCM co-founder. Black Catholic in the San Francisco Bay Area, Knight of Peter Claver, and active in local Catholic music ministry and action for racial justice. Also Claudio Monteverdi's #1 fan.

Zuri Davis
Criminal justice reform activist and a former journalist. Covered police misconduct, wrongful incarceration, the drug war, and the death penalty. Currently residing in Jacksonville, Florida.