Lerita Coleman Brown is a most grateful heart (29 years) and kidney (18 years) transplant recipient and survivor of several other medical ordeals. She lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia, with her husband and their family includes two grown children, and one grandchild. Lerita savors reading, sitting in nature, gardening, sewing, watching college football, writing, viewing the visual and performing arts, telling stories, and laughing a lot. Retired from a career as a psychology professor, Lerita currently serves a spiritual director/companion, author, retreat leader, and speaker. She earned her BA from UC Santa Cruz and PhD from Harvard University. Lerita promotes contemplative spirituality, the living wisdom of Howard Thurman, and uncovering the peace and joy in one’s heart on her website, leritacolemanbrown.com and other social media platforms. Lerita appears in the documentaries, Back Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story, and The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song. Her books, When the Heart Speaks, Listen—Discovering Inner Wisdom was published in 2019 and What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman debuted in 2023.

Perry Page Turners is honored and humbled to have Dr. Brown speak on her latest book, What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman. Dr. Lionel Brown, superintendent of Peach County Schools, will moderate the discussion on January 27, 2024 at Turning a New Page book festival, First Baptist Church, Perry, Ga. Please join us..