Rev. Dr. Vanessa Lovelace is the Executive Director at Louisville Institute. Dr. Lovelace earned her Ph.D. in Bible (Hebrew), Culture, and Hermeneutics from Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, her M.Div. from McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, and a B.A. in Radio & Television from San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.

Her publications include A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider Within, Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse, coedited with Gay L. Byron, and essays in Reading in These Times: Purposes and Practices of Minoritized Biblical Criticism, The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives, The Oxford Handbook of the Minor Prophets, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Bible and Gender Studies. She is a regular contributor to workingpreacher.org and serves on the editorial boards of Biblical Theology Bulletin and Bible Odyssey.

Previously, Dr. Lovelace served as the associate dean and an associate professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. Earlier, she was coordinator of the master of divinity degree program at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She has also taught various courses at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi; Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri; Elmhurst College in Illinois; and Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, Ohio.