Join Exodus Missio Dei and Help Change Lives

Ronald A. Allen is a community-based historian, organizer, minister and educator. In 2007, Allen began his frontline youth development career authoring African-American history workshops for non-profit District of Columbia Out-of-School Time (OST) programs. In 2010, Allen authored Promoting Our Perceptions Debate (or POP Debate) as his mainstay curriculum & approach to African-American OST youth development. In 2012, POP Debate was selected as the exclusive District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) out-of-school time enrichment provider, securing 21st-Century grant-funding to execute African-American history & debate throughout DCPS after-school programs.

In 2016, Allen began labor organizing with the United Automobile Workers of America (UAW) & the Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan (MAFFAN) in Canton, MS. Allen connected the worker campaign to Mississippi's largest social-justice movements & organizations including the Mississippi ACLU, NAACP, Fight for $15 and Take Down the Confederate Flag. In Spring 2018, Allen began Masters of Divinity studies at The Interdenominational Theological Center (The ITC) and completed study at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University 2023. From 2021 to the present, Allen served as Christian Education Director at The Allen Temple-ATL AME Church (2021-2023) & the Lead Instructor for 8th Grade Georgia Studies for public-charter schools. 

In December 2019, Allen organized the inaugural Exodus Conference, evaluating the Missio Dei (Mission of God) for the contemporary Black Christian Church. Allen organized the December 5th, 2020 reprisal of The Exodus Conference in evaluation of the Atlanta Black faith mission. The Exodus last convened around the 2024 Juneteenth Roundtable at AIB studios for its first live-studio recording. Now, The Exodus Missio Dei timely resurrects the practice of Sankofa by delivering practical solutions to the Black condition on the 58th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Allen is a proud native of Atlanta, GA & honors graduate of The University of the South (Sewanee) & Howard University, earning his BA & MA in African-American History.


Founder's Message Script:
The Exodus road lies before us as God's divine invitation for us to leave compromise behind. Our displaced ancestors forged within the very fiber of our beings a legacy of positive self-identity and a natural claim to self-determination that we now make our life's work. 

There is much honor in the practice of Sankofa. Returning to lost and left behind values and principles to correct the mistakes of the past is the greatest legacy any generation can leave for its posterity. To that end, I investigate the past for my people to deliver historically sound recommendations for renewed commitments to the mission that empowered our people to survive chattel enslavement and Jim and Jane Crow racial apartheid.

Today, we eschew the false cloak of post-racialism and return to closed ranks collective identities centered on the traditions and heritage of the first Africans to America. We stand together to reclaim the pride and ownership of our communities and invite anyone to work with us who is intent on securing liberty for all of God's children. 

--RAA Exodus,
Ronald A. Allen