Laurence Steven Minter is a 4th-generation educator and spoken word artist from the South Side of Chicago. He utilizes storytelling as a vehicle for testimony, social change, and liberation. As a third-year Master of Divinity student at Emory’s Candler School of Theology, Laurence strives to create spaces of remembrance and discovery through the tools of art and faith. As a member of the inaugural ELCC cohort, he edited the community change anthology: What The Moment Requires.