Angelique Walker-SmithRev. Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith serves as the strategist for Pan-African, Orthodox and Ecumenical Faith Engagement at Bread for the World. She brings extensive global, national, and local experience as a faith and public engagement thought leader, journalist, speaker, broadcaster, scholar, preacher, and author. She was recently elected to be one of the eight regional presidents of the World Council of Churches from North America in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has also served as ecumenical representative for the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc. She is the president of Historic Black Churches at Christian Churches Together (CCT) USA and has served in governance roles with the National Council of Churches. Walker-Smith has received leadership awards from Yale University Divinity School and Kent State University. In 2022, she was awarded the Figel Award for Ecumenism by the Washington Theological Consortium in Washington, D.C. Walker-Smith earned a doctorate degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and is former executive director/minister of the Church Council in Greater Indianapolis, Indiana and Church Council in Trenton, NJ. Read More Read Less