Dr. Almeda M. Wright is a tenured associate professor of religious education at Yale Divinity School. Her scholarship centers on African American religion, Womanist practical theology, adolescent spiritual development, and the intersection of religion, education, and public life. She recently launched Communitas, a young adult ministry innovation hub at Yale, and serves as co-principal investigator of the Conectere Project, a collaboration with Eastern Mennonite University supporting faith-based parenting and caregiving.
Dr. Wright is the author of Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators and Radical Social Change (Oxford, 2024) and The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans (Oxford, 2017), and co-editor of Children, Youth, and Spirituality in a Troubling World. She also contributed to the Common English Bible’s student edition.
An ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches, Wright has worked with young people for more than 25 years as a classroom teacher, youth minister and assistant director of the Youth Theological Initiative at Emory University.
She holds a Ph.D. from Emory University, a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Simmons College and a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.