Dr. Kishundra D. King is the Director of Black Religious Thought & Life and Faculty Affiliate at Colgate Rochester Divinity School. She also serves as Assistant Professor of Pastoral & Spiritual Care and Director of the Master of Arts in Pastoral & Spiritual Care (MAPSC) at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, CO.

Dr. King holds a Ph.D. degree in Religion, Psychology, and Culture from Vanderbilt University, where she was a Theology and Practice Program fellow. She has also earned an M.Div. from Yale University Divinity School and an M.S. in Counseling from Creighton University. 

Dr. King’s research focuses on Womanist pastoral theology grounded in Black girlhood experiences where she draws on her clinical counseling experiences and employs a Womanist approach to ethnography. In her classroom, Dr. King aims to create a formative learning environment where students develop their own identity and practice in Black religious thought and life.