Contact us

Permission requested to use information from http://www.aeispeakers.com

Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D. has been the Co Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston, MA since 1997 and a pediatrician at the South End Community Health Center since 1981.

Rev. Dr. White-Hammond has a long history of involvement in community service. Dr.White-Hammond is the founder of and consultant to the church based creative writing/mentoring ministry called Do The Write Thing for high risk black adolescent females. The project, which began in 1994 with four girls, now serves over 250 young women through small groups in two Boston public schools, two juvenile detention facilities in Boston and on site at Bethel AME Church. Gloria White-Hammond is the Co Convener of The Red Tent Group with Rabbi Elaine Zecher of Temple Israel, which brings together Christian women and Jewish women for small group Torah/Bible study.

Dr. White-Hammond's work as a humanitarian has achieved global impact. She has worked as a medical missionary in several African countries including Botswana, Cote D'Ivoire and South Africa. Since 2001 Dr. Gloria White-Hammond has made six trips into war torn southern Sudan where she has been involved in obtaining the freedom of 10,000 women and children who were enslaved during the two decades long civil war. In 2002 she co founded My Sisters Keeper (MSK), a humanitarian women's group that partners with women of Sudan in their efforts toward reconciliation and reconstruction of their communities. MSK has developed two grinding mill projects and supports My Sister's Keeper School for Girls in Gogrial County. In February 2005, Dr. White-Hammond traveled into Darfur, western Sudan to listen and learn from female victims of genocide in Internally Displaced Persons camps. She currently serves as the Co Chair of the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur.

Rev. White-Hammond also serves on the Board of Trustees of Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Board of Overseers for the Tufts University College for Community and Public Service, as well as the boards of the American Anti Slavery Group (Boston) and Christian Solidarity International (Zurich).

Rev. Gloria White-Hammond was awarded a B.A. in biology from Boston University, a Doctorate of Medicine from Tufts Medical School and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. Her awards include the Humanitarian Award of the Boston Theological Institute (2004), the Liberating Vision Award of the Greater Boston Section of the National Council of Negro Women (2004) and the Impact Award from AARP (2004).

Since 1973, Rev. Gloria White-Hammond has been married to the Rev. Ray A. Hammond, M.D., who is the founding pastor of Bethel AME Church, the Chairman of the Boston Ten Point Coalition and the Chairman of the Boston Foundation. They have two adult daughters, Mariama and Adiya.