Darria Hudson (best known as D. J.) is currently a Master's of Divinity student at Vanderbilt Divinity school. She is originally from Jonesboro, GA, and first came to Nashville to attend Fisk University, from which she obtained a Bachelor's degree in History. While at Fisk she researched student involvement in the Nashville sit-ins while engaging in activism and community organizing of her own with other students in the city. Also at Fisk she served as a Chapel Assistant and student minister in the Fisk Memorial Chapel for two years. She is currently researching womanist theology and the the role of the natural world in African-American theology.