Ann B. McClenahan, ThD - The Boston Theological Institute

Contact: Dudley C. Rose
Tel: 617-496-5711
Email: [email protected]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 11, 2014
Ann B. McClenahan, ThD
Executive Director of the Boston Theological Institute
The Boston Theological Institute is pleased to welcome Ann B. McClenahan, ThD as its
Executive Director. Dr. McClenahan will take office on June 15 of this year, following the
distinguished twenty-four year tenure of Dr. Rodney L. Petersen.
The Boston Theological Institute (BTI) is an association of ten university divinity schools,
schools of theology and seminaries in the Greater Boston area. It is one of the oldest and
largest theological consortia in the world and includes as member schools the full range of
Christian churches and confessions and a Rabbinical School. The BTI seeks to enrich each
member school’s mission, advance intentional collaboration and share resources in order to
advance interreligious and ecumenical learning; to strengthen teaching, learning and research;
to maximize the stewardship of resources; and to more fully engage the member schools in
building interreligious community. Students, faculty and staff in the member schools benefit
from many resources in other member schools, including: course cross registration and library
privileges, faculty colloquia, and administrative collaboration.
Dr. McClenahan comes to the BTI with business, nonprofit, academic and theological
experience. She received her AB from Brown University, and her MDiv and ThD from Harvard
Divinity School. Her dissertation focused on interreligious community organizing in the Boston
area. Over the last several years Dr. McClenahan has consulted with several church, nonprofit
and for-profit organizations, combining the expertise of her doctoral work with that from a
twenty-year career in business between her graduation from Brown and her matriculation at
Harvard.
Dr. McClenahan has spent most of her career and academic life in Washington, D.C. and the
Boston metro area. In her free time she enjoys urban and wilderness hiking, all forms of
theater, and learning how to cook vegetarian. She is excited to have been asked to join the BTI
as its next Executive Director and looks forward to meeting with and hearing from the many
BTI constituencies in the near future.
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For more information, visit www.bostontheological.org, or contact Dudley C. Rose, Associate Dean,
Harvard Divinity School, at 617-496-5711; e-mail: [email protected]

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