Reverend Professor Keith Magee
Reverend Professor Keith Magee is noted as a public intellectual with over three decades of experience in public theology, public policy, politics, and social justice. Rooted in the Methodist tradition, Keith is bi-vocational serving his ministerial calling and within the private and public sectors working towards justice and equality.
He is Chair and Professor of Practice of Social Justice, Newcastle University (United Kingdom), along with Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor in Cultural Justice University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, leading Black Britain and Beyond, as well as a Fellow at its Centre on U.S. Politics. He does this while serving as the Global Pastor of The Berachah Church, which has an international virtual presence, with a parish in Boston, Massachusetts.
He served on the Biden 2020 President Campaign African American Kitchen Cabinet. He was a Senior Religious Affairs Advisor with the Obama-Biden Campaign in 2008 and 2012. He led the Interfaith Committee for Governor Deval Patrick’s successful 2006 campaign, after which he became the Co Chair of the Massachusetts Council of Chaplains. The Biden-Harris Administration U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St James appointed him to the U.S. - U.K. Fulbright Commission. The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan appointed him as a Commissioner on Diversity in the Public Realm.
He is the Co-Chair of the Endowment Committee on the Board of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and a Trustee of Facing History and Ourselves. He is the author of Prophetic Justice: Race, Religion and Politics (2021), Paper Tigers: ACEs Faith Leaders Guide (2016) and A Prayer for Our Children (2014). He is a contributor for CNN, NBC and BBC.