Description: Danielle J. Buhuro notes that digital spaces are portals of erasure and sites of violence against Black women. Therefore, Buhuro names these spaces as the new frontier for spiritual care. In Womanist Digital Spiritual Care, she proposes a framework for acts of celebration as an accessible approach to liberative spiritual care in a digital world.
Brief description:
Rev. Dr. Danielle "Danie" J. Buhuro is Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia. She is also Executive Director and lead CPE Supervisor at Sankofa CPE Center. Sankofa offers innovative online Clinical Pastoral Education programming along with unique social justice-oriented clinical work settings and prepares clergy chaplains for board certification. Danielle is passionate about issues of race, gender and sexuality. She is author of Spiritual Care In An Age of #BlackLivesMatter: Examining the Spiritual and Prophetic Needs of African Americans Living In A Violent America.
Danielle earned a doctor of philosophy in theology, ethics and human sciences with a focus on pastoral theology from Chicago Theological Seminary. Danielle also holds doctor of ministry and master of divinity degrees.
She has served on the national board of directors for ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education. She facilitates numerous workshops nationwide on African American Pastoral Care and African-centered psychology.
Danielle is same-gender-loving and currently partnered. She parents a son, Ezekiel Calvin Buhuro.
She is committed to excellence and community partnership. Her philosophy of education embraces a pedagogy of helping students enhance their pastoral identity and pastoral competence while improving their pastoral reflection.