Gregory Thompson (PhD, University of Virginia) is an artist of diverse creative background who works at the intersection of moral imagination and social healing. Focusing on matters of race, religion, public memory, and hospitality, Gregory currently serves as Co-Director of Voices Underground, a Creative Consulting firm specializing in helping communities honor their African American histories, as a writer of The Welcome Table, a column on Food, Culture, and Hospitality at Comment Magazine, and as Creative Director of Star & Lantern, a cocktail bar and restaurant honoring African American Food-ways and the history of the Underground Railroad in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books including, Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair (with Reverend Duke Kwon) The Welcome Table: Breaking Bread, Healing Communities (Forthcoming, with pitmaster Russ Whitfield), and Blood From the Ground: Storytelling and Racial Healing (Forthcoming.) Gregory lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife Courtney and their four children.
