The Reverend Doctor J.J. Warren (he/him) is Assistant Professor of (Queer) Theology (tenure track) and Lead of the Gender, Sexuality, and Racial Justice (GSRJ) program at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, which has a 200+ year tradition of training prophetic religious leaders including Rev. Dr. Martim Luther King, Jr. In addition to his role on the faculty here in Rochester, Rev. Dr. Warren resides in Vienna, Austria, and is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Systematic Theology at the University of Vienna.

Professor Warren is the author of two books: Reclaiming Church: A Call to Action for Religious Rejects and Where Two or Three are Connected: Being the Church in This New Era. After making an impassioned plea for the inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons at The United Methodist Church’s (UMC) top law-making assembly in 2019, Rev. Dr. Warren’s speech went viral, and his advocacy has been covered by HuffPost, NBC, Brut Media, and WXXI Radio. Rev. Dr. Warren earned a Bachelor of Arts from New York's Sarah Lawrence College ('19) where he studied religion and creative writing, and a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) from Boston University School of Theology ('22), which is known as "the school of the prophets." In September 2025, he successfully defended his dissertation, "Being Interpreted: A (Queer) Systematic Theology" and earned the Doctor of Theology degree with highest distinction at the University of Vienna, which is one of the oldest universities in the world (founded in 1365).

In June 2023, Rev. Dr. Warren was commissioned as a Provisional Member (clergy) in the New England Conference of The UMC, and he currently serves as the Pastor and Executive Director of Young Prophets Collective, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that seeks to "equip and empower a global community of young LGBTQIA+ religious leaders and allies who use their voices for liberation." You can connect with him on social media by following @itsmejjwarren.

For his full CV, click here.