Dr. Gloria E. White-Hammond

Dr. Gloria E. White-Hammond has been the co-pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston, MA since 1997 and a pediatrician at the South End Community Health Center since 1981. She has a long history of involvement in community service being a founder of and consultant to the church-based creative writing/mentoring ministry called “Do The Write Thing” for high-risk black adolescent females. Dr. White-Hammond’s work as a humanitarian has achieved global impact. She has worked as a medical missionary in several African countries including Botswana, Cote D’Ivoire and South Africa. She is the wife of Rev. Ray Hammond and a mother of two adult daughters, Mariama and Adiya, and grandmother to Ella.