My name is Lakisha R. Lockhart and I am so glad you stopped by.  I am a mother, wife, daughter, sister, author, former Zumba instructor, Womanist and coolest auntie around. I am an Associate Professor in Christian Education at Union Presbyterian Seminary. I am a facilitator, rope jumper, game-player, advocate and catalyst for critical consciousness and engagement in educating in faith and actually living into that faith through various spiritual and artistic practices for liberation. I believe in the power of play, movement, aesthetics, and creative arts in life and in theology, using the body as a locus for theological reflection.

As a facilitator and theological educator, I ground myself in a scholarly life of embodied teaching and learning. I strive to always practice what I teach. As an unapologetically womanist educator I hold deep values of compassion, practicality and liberation for myself and for every student and person I encounter. I understand my role as a theological educator as one who encounters and sojourns with learners. For me, sojourning and encountering are inextricable from anti-racism, embodiment, interculturality, decoloniality and life in between. Through the writing of my first book, I have come to see myself as a rope jumper. A rope jumping educator is one who encounters and sojourns with students and communities across and through the wide and tight spaces of systems that often disembody and diminish personhood. Rope jumping in education not only involves encountering and sojourning with students as they learn how, when, and why to jump their own ropes but also helps them notice the ropes for themselves and others while providing clearing space for students to discover, interrogate, and play with the creative possibilities of it all. 

If you are looking for a liberative teaching experience, a transformative workshop or retreat, or an innovative and inspiring book talk or public conversation that takes embodiment, aesthetics, and play to heart, then let’s talk. 

I look forward to playing together soon!