Dr. Joi Orr

Dr. Joi Orr (she/her/hers) is the Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA. Working at the intersection of Black religious studies, social ethics, and environmental justice her scholarship argues for African American land security and food sovereignty as a necessary component of social justice and Black liberation. Dr. Orr teaches, writes, and presents on the history of African American land dispossession, radical politics, Black utopian imaginations, and food justice.