By Ray Waddle What makes someone a “genius” at justice? The Rev. Timothy Ahrens ’85 M.Div. has been pursuing that question with a genius of his own for decades, collaborating with justice advocates across the landscape, honoring them in his own life, and even getting them on the phone to pinpoint the moral X factor of what they do.
A pair of new scholarships honor two towering figures in the history of women at Yale Divinity School Rena Karefa-Smart ’45 B.D., the first Black woman to graduate from YDS, and Letty Russell, a pioneering feminist theologian who served on the faculty from 1974 to 2001 and an accomplished alumna, the Rev. Shannon Clarkson ’78 M.Div.