Voorhees announces week three of the Women’s History Month speaker series


Denmark, S.C.- Reverend Brendolyn Lovette Jenkins Boseman will serve as the speaker for week three of the virtual Women’s History Month speaker series on Thursday, March 18 at 11 a.m. via the institution’s Facebook and YouTube pages. Boseman is the pastor and lead servant of Hudson Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Augusta, Ga. She is also the founder and executive director of The Imani Group, Inc., a community-based non-profit organization. Additionally, she works tirelessly in criminal justice, environmental justice, social justice, and youth leadership development. She is the first female national co-chair of the African American Ministers Leadership Council and African American Ministers in Action. Boseman brings to the consciousness of other faith leaders their duty to be prophetic voices speaking to not only speaking “truth to power” but in speaking “truth with power.” Also, she is the vice president of the Concerned Ministers Fellowship in Aiken, S.C. After more than four decades, Boseman made a major transformative career and lifestyle change as a funeral service professional in New York and South Carolina. She is currently an instructor for the BASICS World of Work and EMERGE re-entry programs within the prerelease, Diversion, and Transitional Correctional Centers in Georgia and South Carolina. She is a member of the Healing Community Station of Hope and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, having served two terms as past president of the Aiken Branch and as an executive committee member of the SC conference In addition, Boseman is recognized for her expertise and activism in environmental justice, having attended three United Nations Conferences on climate change as a delegate. Under her leadership, The Imani Group serves as a community partner for the U. S. Department of Energy and U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. Boseman is a native of Barnwell, S.C., and presently resides in Aiken. She is the daughter of the late Deacon Matthew Jenkins, Sr. and the late Mrs. Johnnie Ruth Jenkins. Boseman is married to her husband Bobby, and they are the proud parents of three daughters; Razzie, Remy, and Rozlyn, and one deceased son Corey. For more information, contact the Office of Communications, at 803-780-1191 or at communications@voorhees.edu