J.J. Warren is a seminary student at Boston University School of Theology. While attending Sarah Lawrence College for his undergraduate degree in writing, he founded a progressive Christian community on his campus, leading the Young Adult Ministries Team of the Upper NY Conference. Warren’s impassioned speech for inclusion and unity at the Special Session of the General Conference of The UMC in February 2019 was featured by international news groups including the Huffington Post, NBC, the French web news service Brut, and more. His summer 2019 speaking tour, “Forward Together,” visited more than 30 cities across the United States.
