A View from the Balcony--Opera Through Womanist Eyes: PRAXIS for Developing a Balcony Hermeneutic of Restorative Resistance

Jean Derricotte-Murphy is a womanist scholar, ethicist, writer, and public theologian. She earned her PhD in Theology, Ethics, and the Arts from Chicago Theological Seminary. Ordained clergy, she serves as associate minister, assistant to the pastor, director of Christian education, and director of the worship and arts ministry at The Historic New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. She is also vice president of Safe Sacred Space, a 501(c)(3) ministry in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.