About Urban Verses' Authors

Alexis Spencer-Byers (Urban Verses) has spent the past decade working for a variety of nonprofit community development organizations in Jackson, Mississippi. She attends Voice of Calvary Fellowship church and, along with a fellow VOCF member, is preparing to open an inner-city coffee house, where she anticipates finding inspiration for many future writing projects.

Lowell Noble (From Oppression To Jubilee Justice) was professor of sociology and anthropology at Spring Arbor University for 25 years. Since 1994, he has been serving as a volunteer at the John Perkins Foundation (www.jmpf.org) in Jackson, Mississippi. His passion in retirement is to create a theology of society to undergird Christian Community Development.