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Cheryl Giles
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Cheryl Giles, is the Francis Greenwood Peabody Professor of the Practice in Pastoral Care and Counseling, at Harvard Divinity School. She also works as a consultant to the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Social Services, as well as non-profit organizations, schools, and colleges. Professor Giles is also the recipient of the Outstanding African-American Making History Today Award, Boston Renaissance School (2004).