Dr. Katharine Henderson

The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson is President of Auburn Seminary. Auburn is a “seminary of the future,” a think-act tank committed to building a new, progressive multifaith movement for justice. Auburn works through its movement-building initiative, Groundswell, as well as its programmatic areas of education, research, and media. The Rev. Dr. Henderson was raised in Louisville, Kentucky; she earned her Masters of Divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and her doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is the author of God’s Troublemakers: How Women of Faith are Changing the World (2006). She is an internationally known religious leader who has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Crain’s New York Business, MSNBC’s The Melissa Harris-Perry Show, and NPR’s On the Media.