Writer | Professor | Preacher
Dr. Rondrea Danielle Mathis has a career focused on the intersection of Black women and God.
She is an Assistant Professor of English at Bethune-Cookman University, where she teaches English Composition, Black Women Writers, and a seminar course on Toni Morrison.
Dr. Mathis is the founder of the Genius Girl Collective, LLC, editor of a volume on Black womanhood, and under contract for two books, one on Black women’s academic activism and another on womanist theology in Black women’s fiction.
Dr. Mathis is also a proud close-to-the-ground, plant-based home cook, avid gardener, and amateur runner and yogi.
“Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me.".”
— Zora Neale Hurston
By the time I wake up, I’ll have ended a seven-day juice fast. Well, I’ll have ended it before my fellow fasters even begin. See, the fast is supposed to be three weeks, and the third week is juice, but I never do things by anyone’s book, not a recipe, not a curriculum, not a marathon training program. In fact, I consider instructions as a starting point, a point of departure.
Probably because I think I know it all, and I know better than the people who wrote the instructions. This explains why my bookshelf has a shelf on upside down. Directions matter.