Westar Institute

Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President and Director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America. A professor of religion, women’s studies, and Asian American studies for 18 years, she was Director of the Fellowship Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University from 1997-2001 and a fellow at the Harvard Divinity School Center for Values in Public Life from 2001-2002. She is the first Asian American woman to earn a doctorate in philosophy of religion and theology and an award-winning author.