Thomas Norman DeWolf

Available NOW: The Little Book of Racial Healing: Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation, and Transformation (published January 1, 2019, by Good Books/Skyhorse); co-authored with Jodie Geddes. Tom is one of the contributors to Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation (Rutgers University Press, 2019). Tom serves as Executive Director for Coming to the Table (non-profit that provides leadership, resources, and a supportive environment for all who wish to acknowledge and heal wounds from racism that is rooted in the United States’ history of slavery). He's a husband, son, father, and grandfather, and a certified trainer for Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Changing Your Life. Tom co-authored, with Sharon Leslie Morgan, Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade (Beacon Press, 2012), which won the Phillis Wheatley Award for best Nonfiction book. His first book, Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History (Beacon Press, 2008), tells the story of traveling with nine distant relatives on a life-altering journey through Rhode Island, Ghana, and Cuba to film the Emmy-nominated documentary Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, in which he is featured. An Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival, the film premiered on national television on the acclaimed PBS series P.O.V. The African American Jazz Caucus awarded Tom the 2012 Spirit of Freedom Award for Social Justice. Tom travels extensively throughout the United States; speaking at colleges, universities, and conferences, and leading workshops and trainings for groups dedicated to racial healing and transformation.