Introduction to the Presidential Address

of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology.She was a college dropout, and this is her second career; one that she began in her thirties while raising her children.Tamara provides a forceful example to all those in our communities who, for a variety of reasons, have dropped out of college or are late starters.Tamara is blessed with an insatiable curiosity, a never-ending desire to learn, and, most importantly, to share what she has learned with others alongside a neverending desire to uplift those around her and the larger society.Therefore, none is to be surprised by her many contributions as a researcher, teacher, and mentor to students and colleagues, her social activism in Los Angeles, her numerous contributions to the SBL at all levels, and her willingness to trailblaze on multiple fronts.Let me talk for a moment about her dissertation

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