Gregory C. Ellison II (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is the founder of Fearless Dialogues, a non-profit grassroots initiative committed to creating spaces for unlikely partners to
engage in hard, heartfelt conversations that see gifts in others, hear value in each others’ stories, and work for change and transformation in self and other. In three years, Fearless
Dialogues has traveled to over twenty cities domestically and internationally and gathered nearly 7,000 unlikely partners at churches, corporations, community based organizations and schools.
Ellison is a product of the Atlanta Public School System and a proud alumnus of Frederick Douglass High School. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University, where he was inducted
into the Emory College Hall of Fame; the first black male bestowed with that honor. Gregory received his Master of Divinity degree and Ph.D. in Pastoral Theology from Princeton Theological
Seminary. He is currently an associate professor of pastoral care and counseling at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. Awards received include: Person of the Year (2010-2011) and
Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award. An ordained Baptist minister, Greg has served on the ministerial staffs at both Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Ellison’s research focuses on
caring with marginalized populations, pastoral care as social activism, and 20th and 21st century mysticism. He is the author of Cut Dead But Still Alive: Caring for African American Young
Men, and has two books in progress with Westminster John Knox Press – Fearless Dialogues: The Civil Rights Movement of the 21st Century and Anchored in the Current: The Eternal Wisdom of Howard Thurman in a Changing World. Gregory cherishes most the strong convictions he holds toward family, fraternity brothers (of Kappa Alpha Psi) and friends. He is married to Antoinette Greenaway-Ellison and is the proud father of Elisha Alexander, Gregory III, and Anaya.(Bio dated 2017)