Who I am
Guesnerth Josue Perea serves as Director of Black Lives and Contemplation for the Center for Spiritual Imagination, and Executive Director of the afrolatin@ forum. He was part of the team that founded the AfroLatine Theology Project and was Executive Producer of the documentary Faith in Blackness. His perspectives on AfroLatinidad and spirituality have been featured in prominent publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, and USA Today and his writing has been featured in Sojourners, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and anthologies such as Let Spirit Speak!, the Revista de Estudios Colombianos and Engaging Religion. A dedicated Brooklynite, he wholeheartedly believes that cultivating our inner lives through contemplative practice is instrumental for liberation, allowing him to embody Biggie's call to spread love the Brooklyn way.