Youth Ministry Institute

Dori Baker is Senior Fellow for Research and Learning at the Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE), an Atlanta-based leadership incubator for the church and academy. Her research lies at the intersection of young adult culture, innovative leadership, cultural studies of race/gender, and spiritual practices that sustain activism. She wrote Doing Girlfriend Theology: God-Talk with Young Women, is the series editor of a Chalice Press imprint highlighting diverse faith-based leaders of social change, and is the author of numerous other books and journal articles. She is a United Methodist clergy woman who facilitates interfaith gatherings of women and is active in movements for racial justice in the Virginia Annual Conference/UMC.