Gloria Wade-Gayles

Gloria Wade-Gayles holds the Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair at Spelman College and is a CASE professor of Teaching Excellence for the state of Georgia. She is author of numerous books, including Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman's Journey Home and Rooted Against the Wind: Personal Essays , and editor of My Soul Is a Witness: African-American Women's Spirituality and Father Songs: Testimonies by African-American Sons and Daughters . She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.