Ruby Sales
Bio: Perhaps no one is more rooted in history, engaged in the present, and leaning more intentionally into the future than Ruby Sales.
Sales is a public theologian, historian, activist, social critic, and educator. She first answered the call to social justice in the 1960’s as a teenager at Tuskegee Institute to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and work on voter registration in Lowndes County, Alabama. Her oral history is included in the Library of Congress, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC, and in the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. Most recently, Adam Pendleton spotlighted Sales in his exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York City. Additionally, she is a principal subject in Sam Pollard’s newly released film (2022), Lowndes County: The Road to Black Power. Sales founded, and still directs, the SpiritHouse Project, a national nonprofit organization.