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American scholar and Protestant theologian

Rita Nakashima Brock (born April 1950 in Fukuoka, Japan) is an American feminist scholar, Protestant theologian, activist, and non-profit organization leader.

She is Senior Vice President for Moral Injury Programs at Volunteers of America, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, and a Commissioned Minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Early life

The daughter of Ayako Nakashima and a U.S.

Army soldier from Dorado, Puerto Rico, Clemente Morales Torres, she was raised by her mother and grandparents until October 1952, when her mother married Roy Grady Brock, a U.S. Army soldier and veteran of World War II. Her legal name was Rita Nakashima until Roy Brock adopted her in 1958, when her name changed to Rita Brock.^[1] The period of her life in Japan and her first thirty years in the U.S.

is covered by her theological memoir, Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Searc