Spencer A. Murray, DMin

Spencer A. Murray is currently the Restorative Justice Facilitator for the Georgia Justice Project, where he creates spaces for healing, restoration, and reconciliation.  

He is also the Co–Founder and Executive Director of NO HARM, National Organization for Healing and Redefining Manhood. He is a teacher, author, minister, and conflict transformation practitioner who specializes in working with men and boys as it relates to unhealthy ideas of masculinity, and how these ideas contribute to violence towards self, women, and the community. 

A native of Detroit, MI, Spencer is a former educator with the Detroit Public Schools. He holds a Master of Arts in teaching from Wayne State University, a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership from Western Michigan University, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from New York Theological Seminary, where his focus of study was Conflict Transformation. His doctoral work focused on the systemic influence of patriarchy in religion, and its tendency to oppress and perpetrate violence towards women. Based on his dissertation, Spencer published his first book, Conspiracy of Silence: Religious and Patriarchal Roots of Violence Towards Women.

He is also a Harm Reduction Specialist and previously worked for Men Stopping Violence as a Certified Family Violence Intervention Practitioner, where he intervened with men to disrupt abusive behaviors.  In addition to his harm reduction work, he’s also an Adjunct Professor at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, where he teaches the introductory course, Skills in Conflict Transformation.  

Spencer lives in Atlanta with his wife, Erica Parks Murray.