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Ingrid Reneau
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Ingrid Reneau was appointed in July 2007 to serve as education officer in Sudan. She works in southern Sudan in partnership with the Presbyterian Church of Sudan, the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church and the Association of Christian Resource Organizations Serving Sudan. She is charged with helping to implement plans to expand the church-sponsored school system, improve its administrative capabilities, and strengthen its teaching methodologies.
Ingrid, who grew up in Belize and came to the United States when she was 13, is now at the beginning of her third career. Her first took place throughout the 1980s as she worked her way up through the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company from teller to assistant manager.
For her second career she had to study first for her bachelor’s degree and nextfor her master’s and doctorate in literatures in English.
From 1994 through 2005 she held a series of professional jobs related to the teaching literature and writing. Most recently, she was an assistant professor from 2000 to 2005 at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, jointly appointed by the Department of English and the Women’s Studies Program. She specializes in the literature of the African diaspora, 20th-century American literature and Black feminist theory.
But sometime in 2003 Ingrid began, in her words, “a radical, transforming journey of actually living the Scriptures that I have often repeated to myself: ‘Trust in the lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths’” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
Ingrid was led her to work with children and youth at minimum wage jobs and through that experience found herself being called to mission work. She considered going to seminary, but felt that her gifts and experience as an educator could be of service to God’s people.
Ingrid holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She has both a master’s and a Ph.D. in literature in English from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
She is a member of an interdenominational church, the Shiloh Christian Fellowship, in Oakland, California.