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Dr. Richard C. Harris (www.HarrisSpeaks.com) brings extensive expertise and experience to platforms and panels when he speaks on racial harmony/diversity issues, leadership and communication. A university professor and pastor with graduate degrees in pastoral ministries, communication, and adult education, he is best known for his earlier years when he served as the leader of the largest underground terrorist organization in the Midwestern U.S. for several years in the 1970s. An avowed white supremacist and Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, in 1978, he underwent a dramatic conversion and renounced racism and all ties to the KKK. He documents his experiences in his book, One Nation Under CURSE which won the 2012 Reader’s Favorite Award for best non-fiction religion/philosophy book.
Considered a national thought leader in building racial harmony, Dr. Harris served as one of the leaders for the Congressional Gracism Forum on Racial Reconciliation at the U.S. Capital Building in Washington, D.C. in 2017. Following a presidential address, he was recognized for his work in building bridges between the races at the National Prayer Breakfast Leadership Caucus.
In addition to being a full-time faculty member at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida, Dr. Harris also serves as an Associate Pastor at an historic African-American church, Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Bartow, Florida. Dr. Harris is an ordained elder in the Free Methodist Church – USA denomination where he served 31 years as a senior pastor in churches in Illinois, Indiana, and Florida.
A popular speaker on college campuses, church, corporate and government settings, Dr. Harris speaks on his dramatic transformation as well as the importance of building bridges of understanding between races. He captivates his audiences with stories they'll never hear anywhere else and challenges them with lessons he's learned on his journey from a racist, terrorist leader to an educator and racial justice activist.
His life motto is:
If it is not justice FOR all, it is not justice AT all.
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