Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon: Womanist Scholar

The late Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon was the first African-American woman ordained in the Presbyterian church in 1974. She went on to become one of the foremost scholars of the womanist movement. Since 2001, she has served as the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. She received the Excellence in Theological Education award at General Assembly in St. Louis on June 21, 2018, and died in August of 2018.
She received a Bachelor of Science degree from of Barber-Scotia College in Concord, N.C., and a Master of Divinity from Johnson C. Smith Seminary in Atlanta. She received her Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Union Theological Seminary in New York.
This short film (7 minutes) tells the story of her ordination, her call to teaching and her legacy as a teacher who informs and challenges her students.
Note: This video was created in 2018, just a few months prior to her death.
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I was blessed to have had Dr. Cannon as a professor at Temple University. May God continue to rest her soul. What an Inspiration! ❤