Foster J. Pinkney is a writer, organizer, and scholar in the field of Religious Ethics. Working from a Christian humanist perspective, he uses hermeneutic theory, Black theology, and Stoic philosophy to reconceptualize the ethical demands of our social existence. He received his Ph.D. in 2023 in Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Foster's dissertation, Rending the Veil: Blackness as Dignity Constructed through the Works of Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois, explores the Negro Problem which has two distinct, yet connected, valences: the first is to uncover the Black self from the dehumanizing lens of enslavement and the second is recreating self-hood, the emergent idea of blackness, through the prism of racialized hatred, humiliation, and dehumanization. He contends, as a project in Black Theological Ethics, that the uncovering of the Black self and the creative emergence of a Black epistemology hold radical possibilities for our moral conception of the human person. These possibilities center on the ethical duties owed to every person and to structures of liberation both within the self and within society. Foster is originally from Columbus, Ohio, and received his MA in Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.