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Bio – Reverend Osagyefo Sekou

St Louis raised activist, theologian and author, the Reverend Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou was a 2014 Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Education & Research Institute before traveling to Ferguson, MO, in mid-August last year on behalf of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to organize alongside local and national groups following the police killing of Michael Brown.

Rev Sekou attended high school in St Louis and was ordained at Friendly Temple Baptist Church where he served as Youth Pastor between 1993-96. During the 1990’s he taught alternatives to gang violence at Steven’s Middle School and directed the Fellowship Center at the Cochran Housing Project. In May 2015, Rev. Sekou moved back to St Louis to focus on organizing against police violence, predatory court systems and economic and social injustice.

Most recently, the Rev. Sekou served as Pastor for Formation and Justice at First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain, Boston. He was formerly Senior Pastor of Lemuel Haynes Congregational Church in Queens, served as Special Assistant on Social Justice to the Bishop for the Church of God in Christ, Senior Community Minister at New York’s Judson Memorial Church and Social Justice Minister at Middle Collegiate Church, New York. He has been Fellow-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, and as Ella Baker Fellow at New York Theological Seminary’s Micah Institute he served as a strategist organizing clergy for economic justice in New York City.

The Reverend has helped train thousands in civil disobedience and non-violent resistance, and has traveled nationally and globally to speak, organize trainings and mass meetings. In May 2015, Rev. Sekou moved back to St Louis full time to organize with local groups in the ongoing struggle for economic justice and an end to police brutality.

He was recently made the Bayard Rustin Fellow by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.