Tabatha L. Jones Jolivet, PhD

Tabatha L. Jones Jolivet, PhD is an abolitionist organizer, educator, minister, and scholar. Her praxis and scholarship are rooted in prophetic Christian faith, Womanist worldmaking, and Black women’s grassroots organizing to upend oppressive ideologies, systems, and social institutions while building liberatory and life-affirming conditions for flourishing. She specializes in the intersectional study of race, racism, resistance, and social movements; rehumanizing and abolitionist pedagogies; spirituality and sacred resistance; and building antiracist institutions and societies. She is an associate professor in the School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences at Azusa Pacific University, where she advises a doctoral student research collective focused on Womanist and Black Feminist Thought and Praxis. She is co-author of White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education (Peter Lang, 2018).