Berkeley School of Theology’s Center for Truth, Racial Healing, & Restorative Justice invites you to attend the 2025 Fall Lecture with Rev. Dr. Iva E. Carruthers, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago and General Secretary of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference.

Dr. Carruthers has a long history of engagement in community development initiatives and social justice ministry, fostering interfaith and racial reparatory justice throughout the world.  She has served on many boards, local, national and international. Dr. Carruthers has authored and edited a number of articles and publications in areas of religion, sociology and digital technology and produced educational television programming. She holds degrees from the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and Meadville Lombard Theological School and is the recipient of many awards and several post-doctoral fellowships.