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A pioneer and a trailblazer, Dr. Suzan D. Johnson Cook is uninhibited in the midst of challenge.  She is currently the first female President of the 12,000 Hampton Ministers Conference, the largest African American Interdenominational conference in the world.  She is New York City Police Department’s only female Chaplain and the first African American woman to be elected to an American Baptist Church in its 200 year history.  She was selected by EBONY Magazine in 1997  as one of the top 15 women in ministry in the nation.  She made her mark as a creative, compassionate, savvy, sensational electrifying, inspirational orator and speaker, making messages relevant, relational and engaging. The NY Times recently described her as “Oprah and Billy Graham all rolled into one.

 Having served on the Domestic Policy Council in the White House in 1993, and with HUD Secretary for Faith Initiatives form 1994-1997.  She was selected by President Bill Clinton as the only faith leader appointed to his historic Race Initiative.

 A graduate of Boston’s Emerson College (B.S. cum laude); New York’s Columbia University Teacher’s College, Union Theological Seminary, M.A. & M. Div), Ohio’s United  Theological Seminary (D. Min) and Harvard University’s  President’s Administration Fellowship program where she taught communication.

 Her latest bestseller is Live Like You’re Blessed (Random House, 2006). Her  Other best selling books, A New Dating Attitude; Getting Ready for the Mate God Has for You ( and Praying for the Men in Your Life),  Balancing Your Life (with a foreword by Bishop TD Jakes). Too Blessed to be Stressed: and Words of Wisdom for Women on the Move (Nelson: Nashville, 1998) emerged out of her national seminars for women, and is a book of choice for women’s conventions and book clubs.

 Rev. Dr. Suzan D. Johnson Cook Lives in New York City with her husband, Ronald and their two sons: Samuel David and Christopher Daniel.

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