Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil is a visionary and insightful thought-leader in the field of racial and ethnic reconciliation. For over 20 years, she has traveled the globe inspiring hope and igniting a passion for racial healing at colleges, universities, conferences and churches. Dr. Salter McNeil is a powerful and prophetic preacher whose words transform lives and produce action.

Dr. Salter McNeil has extensive experience in the field of racial reconciliation. For nearly 13 years, she served as the Regional Coordinator of Multiethnic training for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a national evangelical organization that supports Christian outreach to students on college and university campuses.

In 1995, in response to her growing passion for authentic racial healing, she founded Overflow Ministries, Inc., a non-profit, faith-based organization devoted to the ministry of racial and ethnic reconciliation. Dr. Salter McNeil continues this work through Salter McNeil & Associates, LLC, a racial and ethnic reconciliation consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois.

As the President and Founder of Salter McNeil & Associates, LLC, Dr. Salter McNeil galvanizes leaders of institutions and organizations to initiate the reconciliation process, and then empowers those leaders to transform their institutional environments into communities of racial healing and justice.

Dr. Salter McNeil has developed the McNeil Reconciliation Change Model to describe and define the reconciliation process. Salter McNeil & Associates implement the Model in their consulting engagements in order to change the culture of an organization or institution from the inside out.

Dr. Salter McNeil holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University, a Master of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a Doctorate of Ministry from Palmer Theological Seminary (formerly Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary). She is the coauthor of the book The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change (InterVarsity Press, 2005). She has also authored a chapter in Womens Liberation, Jesus Style (InterVarsity Press, 1998, 2002).

Through her speaking, teaching, and writing, Dr. Salter McNeil boldly declares a vision that unites, transforms and brings healing to people from every tribe and every nation. Together with her husband, Dr. J. Derek McNeil and their two children, Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil stands at the forefront of an international movement to advance God's kingdom through the ministry of racial and ethnic reconciliation.