Pamela R. Lightsey

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- “An Assault on Democracy”: The Effects of Voter ID Laws on Immigrant-Serving Organizations
  by Hajar Yazdiha and Blanca A. Ramirez
- Representing Mining Realities: Journalism of the People and Digital Expressions of Democracy on Facebook
  by Adela Zhang
- Inequalities, Pandemic Technologies, and the State in Ecuador
  by Michael D. Hill and Consuelo Fernández-Salvador
The Immanent Frame
- The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere.
- Asking good questions
  by Daniel Lord Smail
- A Middle Eastern indigenous critique?
  by Alan Mikhail
- Indigenous refusals and near others
  by Greg Johnson
Kujenga Amani
- Kujenga Amani facilitates the exchange of ideas about diverse aspects of peacebuilding in Africa.
- Muslim Women’s Marital and Citizenship Rights in Ghana
  by Fulera Issaka-Toure
- Democratic Backsliding in Africa: Understanding the Current Challenges
  by Tope Shola Akinyetun
- Changing Dynamics of Conflict and Peacebuilding Among Farmer-Herder Communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt Region
  by Maurice Ogbonnaya
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Dr. Pamela R. Lightsey is VP of Academic Affairs at Meadville Lombard Theological School located in Chicago, IL. She has been engaged as a social justice activist in protest for LGBTQ rights and the movement for Black lives. Her most recent publications are Transforming Service: Reflections of Student Service Professionals in Theological Education and Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology.