Rachel Elizabeth Harding is a native of Georgia, a writer, historian and a poet. Rachel is a specialist in religions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora and studies the relationship between religion, creativity and social justice activism in cross-cultural perspective. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and has an MFA in creative writing from Brown University and a PhD in history from the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Harding is author of A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness, as well as numerous poems and essays. Rachel’s second book, Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism and Mothering, combines her own writings with those of her mother, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, on the role of compassion and spirituality in social justice organizing. Remnants is published by Duke University Press
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