Ambassadors
Cynthia Garrity Bond, ABD, MA
Cynthia Garrity Bond, ABD, MA, is a women’s spirituality coach, scholar, and researcher. She taught feminist theology, religion, and ethics at Loyola Marymount University for fifteen years and is a doctoral candidate at Claremont Graduate University in women’s studies in religion. Cynthia specializes in mysticism, women’s spiritual experience, and feminist ecojustice.
Katie Hamaker, MBA
Katie Hamaker is a doctoral candidate in Women’s Spirituality at California Institute of Integral Studies. She is also an adjunct lecturer and teacher. Her research explores the intersections of Jesus, psychedelics, and social justice and examines how stories and embodied experiences co-emerge to both decenter the human and welcome a cosmoethic – a universe becoming through the lens of a feminist psychedelic process philosophy.
Mary Hearns-Ayodele, MA
Mary Hearns-Ayodele is a SNR/M/I/Prophetess in the Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Africana folk medicine scholar, and doctoral student in philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She completed a MA in culture and spirituality at Holy Names University. Her research interests are centering the voices of marginalized communities in relationship to embodied religion with a special focus on the intergenerational transfer of Ancestral Africana folk healing practices.
Gretchen Kehan, MA
Gretchen Kehan, MA is an experienced entrepreneur, facilitator, and scholar-practitioner tending to the thresholds of spirituality, social justice, and change. She earned her MA in women, gender, spirituality, and justice from the California Institute of Integral Studies specializing in women’s sacred mysteries and art. Gretchen stands by the principles and power of antiracism, visionary feminism, co-creation, collaboration, decolonial worldviews, and interconnectedness. She encourages the praxis of spirituality, liberation, and service.
Rev. Burdette Lowe, PhD
Rev. Dr. Burdette D. Lowe is a historian, educator, and memory worker whose scholarship embodies remembrance, re-membering, and bearing witness to the continuum of Black women’s existence from the Primordial Mother(s) to the Present. She holds a PhD in humanities from Clark Atlanta University with a concentration in African and African American history and is completing a PhD in philosophy and religion with a specialization in Women’s Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). She also holds a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) and a Master of Arts in Christian Education (M.A.C.E.) from the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
Rev. Glencie Rhedick, MS
Rev. Glencie Rhedrick is an ordained Baptist minister, Womanist Theoactivist, and a passionate advocate for justice, addressing the systemic biases and unjust experiences that impact Black women and the broader African Ascending communities. Rhedrick holds an MS in human resources management and development with a concentration in organizational behavior from National Louis University in Evanston, Illinois. She also earned a Master of Divinity with an emphasis in pastoral care from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Women’s Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California.
