The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson is President of Auburn Seminary. Founded in 1818, Auburn is a seminary in covenant with the Presbyterian Church USA, and is a “seminary of the future,” a think-act tank committed to building the multifaith movement for justice. Auburn works through its movement-building initiative, Groundswell, as well as its programmatic areas of education, research, and media.

The Rev. Dr. Henderson was raised in Louisville, Kentucky; she earned her Masters of Divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and her doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is the author of God’s Troublemakers: How Women of Faith are Changing the World (2006). She is an internationally known religious leader who has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Crain’s New York Business, MSNBC’s The Melissa Harris-Perry Show, and NPR’s On the Media.

Previously, in her capacity as Executive Vice President of Auburn for the nine years prior to her presidency, Henderson spearheaded innovative educational programs, ranging from convening CEOs of major American corporations to engage in rigorous review of ethical business practice pre- and post-recession, to gathering young leaders from war-torn countries to practice conflict resolution and multifaith understanding through Auburn’s flagship youth leadership program, Face to Face/Faith to Faith.

Henderson is a regular contributor to the Newsweek/Washington Post blog, On Faith.