Anne E. Streaty Wimberly, MMus, MTS, PhD, is Executive Director of the Youth Hope-Builders Academy, a program for high school youth funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc., and housed at Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, Georgia, where Dr. Wimberly is also Professor Emerita of Christian Education at ITC. She has published numerous books and articles, including Keep It Real: Working with Today's Black Youth (editor, 2005).