Gloria E. White-Hammond
Doctor of Humane Letters
Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D., has been a pediatrician at the South End Community Health Center since 1981 and the co-pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston since 1997. In addition to her work as a physician and pastor, she is engaged in community service and humanitarian efforts that have local and global impact.
She has worked as a medical missionary in several African countries, including Botswana, Côte D’Ivoire, and South Africa. Since 2001, she has traveled regularly into war-torn southern Sudan, where she has helped obtain freedom for some 10,000 women and children who were enslaved during that country’s long civil war. In 2002, she co-founded “My Sister’s Keeper,” a humanitarian group that helps Sudanese women rebuild their communities and foster reconciliation. In 2005, she traveled into Darfur, in western Sudan, to meet with survivors of genocide living in displaced persons camps.
In Boston, she founded “Do the Write Thing,” a mentoring program for at-risk black adolescent females. The project began in 1994 with four girls and now serves 550 young women at sites in public schools, juvenile detention facilities, and at Bethel AME Church. She also is co-founder of The Red Tent Group, which brings together Christian and Jewish women for Torah and Bible study.
Rev. White-Hammond is a trustee of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a member of the Board of Advisors at the Tufts University Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, and she serves on the board of the Zurich-based Christian Solidarity International.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at Boston University, her medical degree from Tufts University, and a master of divinity from Harvard Divinity School. Her husband, Rev. Ray Hammond, is also a physician and minister.
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