Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D.: The Anatomy of the Social Movement to Save Darfur

Dr. White-Hammond is co-pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston. Since 1997, she has also worked as a pediatrician at the South End Community Health Center. Besides her work with young women in Boston, Dr. White-Hammond has worked as a medical missionary in several African countries including Botswana, Cote D’Ivoire and South Africa. Since 2001, she's made seven trips into war-torn southern Sudan where she has been involved in obtaining the freedom of 10,000 women and children who were enslaved during the two-decades-long civil war. In 2002, she co-founded My Sister’s Keeper, a humanitarian women’s group that partners with women of Sudan in their efforts toward reconciliation and reconstruction of their communities. In February 2005, Dr. White-Hammond traveled into Darfur, western Sudan, to listen and learn from female victims of genocide in internally displaced persons camps. She recently served as the national chairperson of the Million Voices for Darfur campaign and currently is the co-chair of the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur.