Dr. Valerie Miles-Tribble weaves together personal narrative and cultural critique in her evocative literary memoir-style lecture. Echoing Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, she brings to life the \"wisdom women\" of her childhood community—surrogate mothers lovingly called “aunties.” These women, vital to the neighborhood’s fabric, acted as guardians, storytellers, and moral compasses. Deeply connected to the rhythms and stories shaping their community, they embodied the essence of shared responsibility and nurtured the neighborhood’s children, illustrating how motherhood transcends biological ties to encompass a broader cultural and communal role.\nThis presentation celebrates the enduring legacy of these unsung heroines and challenges traditional notions of motherhood by elevating their contributions to the collective good.\n\n

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Rev. Dr. Valerie Miles-Tribble is Professor of Ministerial Leadership and Practical Theology at the Berkeley School of Theology and Chair of the Women's Studies in Religion Certificate Program in the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Engaging liberation theology as womanist scholar, practical theologian, and community activist, raises critical awareness of systemic oppressions. Dual departmental alignment in Theology & Ethics and Religion & Practice integrates theoethics to examine intersections of social justice praxis in church and society for restorative public approaches. Rev. Dr. Valerie is an ordained clergy woman and interim pastor with earned Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from GTU schools and PhD in Leadership & Organizational Change from Walden University, Minneapolis. Her service roles in the Women of Color National Network (WOCIM) and regional coordinator in Rise Together Mentor Network supports intergenerational empowerment of millennial leaders across contextual identities. As speaker and writer, Valerie has a book soon to be released: Change Agent Church in Black Lives Matter Times: Urgency for Action. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield imprint, Lexington/Fortress Academic(2020).

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