Iva E. Carruthers

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Field of Study: Community Development, Social Justice

Email: godiva@orita.org

Department: Center for Reparative Justice, Transformation, and Remediation

Rev. Dr. Iva E. Carruthers is a founding trustee and General Secretary of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference (SDPC), an interdenominational organization within the African American faith tradition focused on social justice issues. SDPC is both a 501c3 and United Nations Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). Dr. Carruthers has a long history of engagement in community development initiatives and social justice ministry, fostering interfaith and racial reparatory justice throughout the world. Dr. Carruthers is Professor Emeritus and former Chairperson of the Sociology Department at Northeastern Illinois University; and, founding President of Nexus Unlimited, an information and technology firm. She is also founder of Lois House, an urban retreat center, Chicago, Illinois. She has served on many boards, local, national and international. Dr. Carruthers has authored and edited a number of articles and publications in areas of religion, sociology and digital technology and produced educational television programming. She holds degrees from the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and Meadville Lombard Theological School and is the recipient of many awards and several post-doctoral fellowships.