How To Show Up As Leaders: Preparing The Next Generation of Social Justice Champions

Written By Dr. Kipton Jensen

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In partnership with Points of Light, we hosted our February #ListenLearnAct to End Racism conversation titled, “How to Show Up as Leaders: Preparing the Next Generation of Social Justice Champions,” a session that went into the dynamics and importance of academic institutions, in collaboration with historically Black colleges and universities and other civic and corporate organizations, in preparing the next generation of social justice-oriented leaders. Attendees explored the role that institutions and organizations, academic or otherwise, are playing to prepare the next generation to show up and stand up, or in the words of Morehouse alumnus, Martin Luther King Jr., to become “drum majors for justice."

Dr. Kipton Jensen

Kipton E. Jensen, PhD (Marquette University, 1996), is an associate professor of philosophy and the director of the Leadership Studies Program in the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership (AYCGL) at Morehouse College. He previously served as the assistant director of the International Comparative Labor Studies Program (ICLS). 

Since coming to Morehouse, Jensen has published numerous articles on Howard Thurman and the social justice leadership legacy at Morehouse College. Jensen recently published a collection of Howard Thurman’s Sermons on the Parables (Orbis Books, 2018) and a manuscript titled Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common Ground (University of South Carolina Press, 2019). Prior to coming to Morehouse College, Dr. Jensen taught philosophy at the University of Botswana (2004-2008). His research in Botswana on the role of traditional healers and faith communities in public health was published as Parallel Discourses: Religious Identity and HIV Prevention in Botswana (2012). He was a Fulbright Scholar of American Studies at the Martin Luther Universität in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, in 2000/2001. Jensen received his BA in classical languages at the University of Nebraska and a PhD in philosophy at Marquette University.

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