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Rev. Dr. Marie Onwubuariri serves as Director of Intercultural Ministries of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies, where she leads a team that champions ABHMS’s historic commitment to relevant ministry within ethnic and language-specific communities while also raising the attentiveness and ability of all leaders and disciples to engage in transformative mission work in the increasingly multiracial and multicultural United States and Puerto Rico. With a lifetime of experiences and learning at the intersection of a multiplicity of cultures, Dr. Onwubuariri brings to this role a cumulative approach to cross-cultural communication and competency; diversity, equity, and inclusion assessment and praxis; and racial justice and anti-racism commitment and action. Her education includes the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry at Berkeley School of Theology in California, where she is also an affiliate faculty member in Practical Theology and Intercultural Studies. She is author of “Reframing tension for transformation: bridge-crossing | bridge-making | bridge-being” (Review & Expositor, 118, April 2022), and coeditor of Trouble the Water: A Christian Resource for the Work of Racial Justice (Nurturing Faith, 2017).