Susan Moore

Rev. Dr. Susan Moore

has had a 36-year career as pastor, community advocate, teacher, chaplain, and author. Licensed in the Baptist Church in 1976, Dr. Newman, Dr. Moore was ordained at Peoples Congregational United Church of Christ in 1983, where she served as assistant minister. A native of Washington, she is currently a member of Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ. Her ministry has focused upon the challenges facing urban America. She has served as the director of public policy at the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and senior advisor for religious affairs to the District’s mayor. Hailed by Ebony Magazine as one of the Top Black Women Preachers in America, she has been called “down-to-earth,” “powerful,” “life-changing,” and “a reality check for the church.”