Lightsey is a Black, womanist, queer theologian who serves as vice president for academic affairs and an associate professor of constructive theology at Meadville Lombard Theological School, a Unitarian Universalist seminary in Chicago.

This event is sponsored by the Spiritual Life Center, the Clifton and Dorothy Bundy Potter Lecture Fund, and partly funded by a grant from the Black Disciples Endowment Fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).