Candidate 4

PROFESSIONAL

Old South Church in Boston and City Mission Boston, Boston, USA
Pastor, 2019 Aug – Present

A Lily Foundation funded urban pastoral residency program for recent seminary graduates doing ministry in a church setting as well as in the community – City Mission Boston works with the unhoused in Boston

  • Pastoral care and counselling, preaching and liturgy creation, officiating sacraments, organizing and advocacy in interfaith setting, faith formation including small groups and anti-racism/ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion training.

Chapter One Innovation, Johannesburg, South Africa
Busines Development/ Social Entrepreneurship, 2015 – 2016

  • Start-up team of 3 building businesses that address poverty and inequality in South Africa

McKinsey & Company, Johannesburg, South Africa
Chief of Staff to Global Head of the Social Sector Practice, 2014 – 2015
Consultant, 2011 – 2014

Consulting in the following areas throughout 4.5 years at McKinsey & Company

  • Working as “right-hand” person to head of social sector, including shaping the future of the social sector practice

  • Recruiting and professional development: designed recruiting strategy for hiring POC, campus recruiter, organized and led recruiting and professional development for summer interns (incl ivy-league MBA candidates)

  • Youth unemployment and job creation: Africa strategy on job creation, identifying sectors that can employ youth

  • Education and health: analyzing Africa funding landscape, creating strategy and implementation for tech in education

  • Energy: designing development program for senior managers, assisting African countries design energy strategies

  • Financing: assisting a foundation to select social impact areas for investment, debt financing and capital allocation for a large transport infrastructure program, assisting bank expand to launch a new product offering in a new country

Murray and Roberts, Johannesburg, South Africa
Graduate Quantity Surveyor, 2010

  • Measuring quantities and finances for Africa’s first speed rail, the Gautrain station, as well as quantities for a water treatment plant, Zeekoegat

INTERNSHIPS

Middle Collegiate Church, New York, USA
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE): Pastoral Care Intern, 2017 Sep – 2018 July

  • Providing pastoral care to congregants, facilitated grief group, preaching and liturgy creation

NYU Langone, New York, USA
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE): Chaplaincy, 2017 June – Aug

  • Pastoral care in hospital setting to individuals and families, administering sacraments

EDUCATION

Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA
Master of Divinity (M. Div.) Psychology and Religion, 2016 – 2019

  • Thesis (Distinction): African Women Praying in Tongues as a Subversive Practice of Resistance

  • Awarded 100% tuition scholarship

  • Competitive Columbia University SIPA International Fellows Program

  • American Academy of Religion Paper Presentation: Long-term psychological consequences of systemic injustice

  • Yale Divinity School Myth & Meaning Conference Paper Presentation: Black Poetics of Prayer

WITS University, Johannesburg, South Africa
Quantity Surveying (Honors), 2006 – 2009

  • Dean’s List (top 10% in school)

  • Thesis (Distinction): The impact the National Credit Act on SA’s residential property market for middle-income earners

  • Awarded 100% tuition scholarship

LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Member of Massachusetts Primary Care Practice Health Equity Task Force, Boston, USA
Faith Community Representative, 2020 Oct – Present

  • A task force aiming to address health equity and address systemic injustice within healthcare in Massachusetts

International Students at Union Theological Seminary, New York, USA International Students Chairperson and Coordinator, 2017 – 2019

  • Working closely with Dean of Student Affairs to organize events and create community for international students

  • Providing pastoral care to international students

Conversations (and Actions) That Matter, Johannesburg, South Africa
Co-Founder, 2013 – 2016

  • Created platform for young people to start having meaningful conversations with the intention of leading to meaningful actions

  • Topics ranged from healthcare, racial transformation, education, science, black hair, governance, Lisa Sharon Harper was one of our speakers

  • ~ 100 people reached, with bi-weekly coffee style conversations of ~ 15 people and quarterly seminars

Recruiting at McKinsey & Company, Johannesburg, South Africa
Regular Volunteer Recruiter, 2011 – 2015

  • Recruiting and hiring focused predominantly on people of color as the organization was diversifying and becoming more inclusive

  • Developing strategy, analyzing data, designing implementation plan and implementing it with teams

  • Assisting people with interview preparation, speaking and hosting recruiting events, interview training

TEDx Soweto Speaker, Johannesburg, South Africa
Title: Finding meaning in a 64-day trip across 8 African countries, 2014

  • Talk generated followership, created blog, hosted talks, participated in interviews, mentored and did some education with young people

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  • Travel: Travelled through 8 African countries using public transport for 64 days alone, travelled to 10+ other countries

  • Reading: I read a lot about healing, spirituality and liberation, inspired by the likes of Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Resmaa Menakem, Angela Davis, James Cone, Zakes Mda, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Credo Mutwa, bell hooks, Audre Lorde

  • Other extra-murals: Solving puzzles, writing and crocheting