Highland Forum Series

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Highland Winter Forum Speaker—Hannah McMahan King
Lessons on Life and Leadership from A Humble Sunday School Teacher, Sunday, March 2, 4:00 p.m., Activity Building, 2380 Cloverdale Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC 27103

Today our country longs for individuals who model building bridges and healing divides. We recently lost one such person. In his post-presidency, Jimmy Carter convened a group to implement “The New Baptist Covenant,” an initiative primarily devoted to seeking reconciliation and collaboration between Black and White Baptists. Jimmy and Rosalynn understood the inequities caused by segregated worship and segregated communities. They wanted to do all they could to heal those divides of racism.

Before coming to work as the Assistant Dean of Development at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Hannah McMahan King worked to launch the New Baptist Covenant under the leadership of former President Jimmy Carter. McMahan King worked with Carter for 13 years on this initiative. McMahan King will reflect on lessons learned from President Carter regarding living a meaningful life and faithful leadership.

Hannah McMahan King is the Assistant Dean of Development for the Divinity School and Wait Chapel. She graduated from Wake Forest in 2006 with a BA in religion, and later from Divinity School in 2009. She also earned a Masters in History in 2012 from the University of Mississippi, where she studied racial-religious violence in the Jim Crow South, and how Christian theology both supported and undermined the lynching culture of the South.

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