HDS - Summer Leadership Institute

Summer Leadership Institute

Director, Staff, and Teachers

Sushama Austin-Connor and Preston N. Williams

Director

Dr. Preston N. Williams
Houghton Research Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change
Harvard Divinity School

Staff

Sushama Austin-Connor
Coordinator

Telephone 617.384.9857
Fax 617.384.9856
Email sli@hds.harvard.edu
Mailing address 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

Teaching Staff

The core of the teaching staff for the Summer Leadership Institute is made up of Harvard faculty members, but instruction is also provided by clergy and by business, legal, and community development professionals from outside the University. This staff, which is subject to change each year, includes:

William C. Apgar
Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and former Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. His interests include housing, community development, and urban and regional economic development.

Robert Franklin
President of Morehouse College. Former Professor of Social Ethics at Emory University and former president of the Interdenominational Theological Center. His interests include theology and ethics.

Laura Morgan Roberts in class

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African and African American Studies and Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard. Her interests include the history of the black church as well as historical and sociological perspectives on African American women.

Christine Letts
Rita E. Hauser Lecturer in the Practice of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership
Associate Dean for Executive Programs Executive Education at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Her current interests include managing improvement in large, complex organizations and management of nonprofit organizations.

Edward H. Marchant
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is interested in real estate finance and development, and the financing, development, and management of affordable housing.

Laura Morgan Roberts
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School. She currently teaches Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) in the first year curriculum. Her interests include gender, organizational behavior, and race and ethnicity.

Howard Stevenson
Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for External Relations at Harvard Business School. He serves as a director at several corporations as well as a trustee for a number of foundations and private trusts.

David Thomas
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at Harvard Business School. He is a noted authority on mentoring, executive development, and the challenges of creating and effectively managing a diverse workforce.

Cornel West
Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion at Princeton University and former Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor at Harvard. His interests include problems facing the black urban underclass and maintaining an ongoing dialogue between African Americans and Jews.

Preston Noah Williams
Director of the Summer Leadership Institute and Houghton Research Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change at Harvard Divinity School. He is interested in social and economic justice, human rights, and African American religion.

Lula Ballton

The teaching staff also includes:

Charles Adams
William and Lucille Nickerson Professor of the Practice of Ethics and Ministry, Divinity School

Lula Bailey Ballton
Executive Director of West Angeles Community Development Corporation, Los Angeles.

Charles Coverdale
Pastor of First Baptist Church of Riverhead, New York.

Floyd Flake
Senior Pastor of the Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church, Queens, New York.

Ray Hammond
Pastor of Bethel AME Church, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Mark Whitlock
Pastor of Christ Our Redeemer AME Church, Irvine, California.