Jemar Tisby
President of The Witness Inc. and The Witness Foundation
Tisby is a Christian historian, podcast host, author and speaker whose goal is to propel Black Christians forward. He is passionate about bearing history with contemporary relevance by pursuing racial justice solutions and cultural conversations.
Jemar Tisby also founded The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, a multimedia platform about race, religion, politics, and culture. He is also the co-host of the Pass The Mic podcast and has spoken nation-wide at conferences. In addition to his books, The Color of Compromise—a New York Times bestseller—and the upcoming How to fight Racism, his writing has been featured in the Washington Post, CNN, and The Atlantic.
Tisby is currently a PhD candidate in History at the University of Mississippi studying race, religion, and social movements in the twentieth century.
His first book, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism was released in January 2019.