Reverend Dr. Qiyamah A. Rahman resides in St. Croix, V.I. She served the UU Fellowship of St. Croix from 2012-2018. She is the Executive Director of Sister Souurce, Inc. a non-profit devoted to encouraging activity, support and directing resources to benefit Black UU women and girls. The website can be found here.

She is in full fellowship and was ordained October 21, 2007 at UU Church of Charlotte in Charlotte, NC. Rev. Rahman works part time as Chaplain/Spiritual Counselor with Continuum Care, a local hospice in St. Croix. Rev. Rahman has published several essays on Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, a Black Unitarian, abolitionist, author and activist in the 1800s. She is published in BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation; Voices from the Margins; The Spirit That Moves: Readings and Rituals for times of Change and Transition; and Darkening the Doorways: Black Trailblazers and Missed Opportunities in UUism. Her first book, an anthology. is coming out this fall titled, The Rough Side of the Mountain: Black Women’s Ministries in Unitarian Universalism.

Inspired by the Interfaith and social justice witness of UUism, Rev. Qiyamah A. Rahman devotes her research to the richly diverse narratives of Black UU women and girls. She challenges us to expand our scholarship on the presence of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Unitarian Universalists.

Rev. Qiyamah was the Minn’s Lecturer for 2020.
Qiyamah earned her Bachelor’s in Education and a Masters of Social Work from the University of Michigan. She has a Masters of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School and a doctorate of Arts from Clark Atlanta University in Africana Women’s Studies.