Dr. Felicia Howell LaBoy, a 2010 UMC Women of Color Scholar, is assistant professor of evangelism in the Heisel Chair and director of the urban center, United Theological Seminary. She spent 13 years in urban pastoral ministry.

Dr. LaBoy teaches in the areas of evangelism, formation and church renewal. Her special interests are in the connections between evangelism and social justice, urban ministry, racial reconciliation, faith-based community and economic development, and African American religious history and leadership.