Yale Divinity School-Alumnal Board:
In November 1987, at Howard University 's Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Reverend Kwame Osei Reed was installed as Association Minister for the Potomac Association of the United Church of Christ. In this capacity he serves as the executive officer for UCC congregations in the National Capital Area.
Born in McComb, Mississippi, into a family that was active in the civil rights movement, Reverend Reed later graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and from the Howard University School of Law with his Juris Doctorate degree. He graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1979, where he served as student body president.
As an attorney, he is an active member of the Virginia State Bar. Since his ordination into the UCC in 1979, he has pursued a career ranging from pasturing to legal and academic work. He served on the faculty of Oberlin College, in the Legal Studies Department of the University of Pittsburgh, and as a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School. As chairperson of the Potomac Association's South Africa Task Force, he organized a January 1986 Washington, D.C. Convocation with Archibishop Desmond Tutu, the ongoing work of which has made great strides toward the liberation of South Africa.
Formerly known as Bobby Reed, Kwame was ceremonially adopted into the Ashanti people of Ghana, where he was given the name Kwame Osei. Recently, he and his wife, Rita Wallace Reed, M.D., MPH, a native of Ghana, began construction of a clinic for sick children near Accra, Ghana. Kwame and Rita live in Reston, Virginia with their sons, Nene and Kojo.
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