Suzan Johnson Cook
Suzan Cook | |
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| 3rd United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom | |
| In office April 2011 – October 2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | John Hanford |
| Succeeded by | David Saperstein |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 28, 1957 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Emerson College (BA) Columbia University (MEd) Union Theological Seminary (M.Div., DDiv) |
alma_mater which should be merged with/replaced by education.Suzan Denise Johnson Cook (born January 28, 1957) is a U.S. presidential advisor, pastor, theologian, author, activist, and academic who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom under The Obama Administration from April 2011 to October 2013. She has served as a policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and later to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, a dean and professor of communications at Harvard University, a professor of theology at New York Theological Seminary, a pastor at a number of churches, a television producer, and the author of nearly a dozen books. She was the first female senior pastor in the 200-year history of the American Baptist Churches USA, Mariners Temple Baptist Church in NYC and a close friend of Coretta Scott King. She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.