April M. Mack

Bio

April Mack is the Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Justice and the Director of the Master of Social Justice and Ethics Program at Iliff School of Theology.

Dr. Mack describes herself as a Black feminist decolonial scholar and theo-ethicist concerned with ethics related to complex social issues, structural inequality, and wholistic justice and flourishing for Black Americans. Her research focuses on the development of postcolonial womanist theo-ethical discourse within Womanist Ethics. Dr. Mack’s other research interests
include African Americans and Public Policy, Christian Social Ethics, and religious violence.Her signature course on religious violence is called God, Religion, and Violence.

Dr. Mack’s research is interdisciplinary and utilizes Feminist and Womanist theology and ethics in conversation with postcolonial studies and criticism, Gender studies, and African American Studies.

She is the author of “I Can’t Breathe”: Neocolonial Geotrauma and Violence in the Age of Trump in Faith and Reckoning after Trump (Orbis, 2021) and “Womanist Ethics as a Contribution to Bioethics” in the Hastings Center’s Special Issue: A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti-Blackness Racism Through Intergenerational Dialogue.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1552146x/2022/52/S1

Dr. Mack is currently working on her manuscript entitled: Introducing Postcolonial Womanist Thought.

Prior to becoming a scholar, Dr. Mack had a successful career in grant writing and grant and program management in several sectors. She has worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Housing Authority for the City of Atlanta, the Kansas City Housing Authority, the Corporation for National Service, the Council on Foundations, Howard University
School of Divinity, and several non-profit organizations.

Prior to coming to Iliff, Dr. Mack has held teaching positions at Florida Southwestern State College and Saint Louis University.