Jemar Tisby

Jemar Tisby

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• Nationality:   American, around Chicago
  
• Education: Notre Dame,  MDiv from Reformed Theological Seminar, working on his PhD in History at the University of Mississippi
  
• Author URL: http://JemarTisby.com/
• Books Written
• How To Fight Racism
• Color of Compromise
  
• Biography

Jemar Tisby is the bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and How to Fight Racism. He is the founder of The Witness Inc. and co-host of the Pass The Mic podcast. Tisby speaks nationally about history, religion, and antiracism.

Before the Center, Jemar Tisby joined Teach For America and was assigned to the Mississippi Delta Corps where he taught sixth grade at a public charter school and later went on to be the principal. He received his MDiv from Reformed Theological Seminary and is presently working toward his PhD in History at the University of Mississippi studying race, religion, and social movements in the twentieth century.  From the biography on BU Center for Anti-Racism