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 Albany State University, where she teaches English Composition, Black Girl Magic, and courses in American literature.
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.