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Faith Wambura Ngunjiri

Faith Wambura Ngunjiri

Ed.D., Associate Professor of Ethics and Leadership; Director of the Lorentzen Center for Faith and Work

Concordia College

Faith Wambura Ngunjiri, Ed.D. is an associate professor of Ethics and Leadership and Director of the Lorentzen Center for Faith and Work at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. Dr. Faith is interested in women and leadership, and issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education. She was a participant in the consultation in July 2019 involving professors from business, leadership, and management departments.

Published Articles

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The Challenge of Inclusion in the Ethics Classroom

Faith Wambura Ngunjiri

No. 51 · Spring 2020

Ngunjiri, the only Black woman tenured faculty member at Concordia College, reflects on her students’ resistant and resonant responses to MLK Day programming on “Not Racist: A White Moderate Myth” — and on what it takes to make the ethics classroom a place where students can “BREW”: Becoming Responsibly Engaged in the World.
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Mentoring in the Academy: Of Gurus, Coaches, and Sponsors

Faith Wambura Ngunjiri

No. 41 · Spring 2015

Ngunjiri urges faculty, staff, and administrators in faith-based institutions to assemble a “personal board of directors” of mentors — connectors, sponsors, taskmasters, motivators, dreamers, sages, and proofers — and reflects on how race and gender complicate mentoring in predominantly white, male-led ELCA institutions, where women and minorities must reach out to build the “cloud of witnesses” they need to thrive.

Faith Wambura Ngunjiri

Published Articles

The Challenge of Inclusion in the Ethics Classroom

Mentoring in the Academy: Of Gurus, Coaches, and Sponsors