Bio

Rev. Dr. Iva E. Carruthers is an affiliate faculty member at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, and co-founder and CEO/General Secretary Emerita of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference (SDPC). She also served as executive director of the Black Theology Project and president of Urban Outreach Foundation. Dr. Carruthers holds a PhD from Northwestern University in sociology and a Master of Theological Studies from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She did post-doctoral studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois. She is Professor Emerita and former chairperson of the Sociology Department at Northeastern Illinois University. Founding president of Nexus Unlimited, an information technology firm, she served on the U.S. Presidential Task Force on the Internet and Instructional Technology. She has authored and edited numerous publications in the areas of sociology, technology, and theology. She is an esteemed "History Maker," her portrait was unveiled and hangs in the Morehouse School of Religion Chapel, and in 2025 she was officially enstooled as Developmental Queen Mother of Cape Coast, Ghana.