Dr. Corey J. Henderson

I write, speak, and think publicly about trauma, healing, theology, history, and the moral weight of memory.

My work is rooted in the belief that healing cannot happen without truth. Too often, people are asked to move on before they have been allowed to name what wounded them. Communities are taught to celebrate survival without wrestling honestly with what survival has cost. Faith is sometimes offered as comfort without enough room for grief, complexity, or memory.

As a public health scholar, writer, and speaker, I bring together scholarship, storytelling, moral reflection, and public engagement. My work explores how trauma shapes individuals, communities, and generations, and how healing requires not only resilience, but witness, responsibility, and care.

I am the author of We Ain’t Healin and am currently developing historical fiction that reflects my commitment to story as a vessel for memory, identity, and freedom. Whether in speeches, essays, media, or creative work, I return again and again to the same concern: how do we tell the truth about what has happened to us, and what kind of people might we become if we do?