Future of Hope celebrates inaugural year, casts vision for coming year by Regan McSherry  • The Royal Scribe KNOXVILLE — The Future of Hope Institute celebrated their opening year and first class of 20 young scholars who experienced training focused on impacting their local environment by cultivating justice this Thursday evening. Director of [...]

Dametraus Jaggers Joins Johnson University Faculty as an Assistant Professor and as the Director of the Urban Alliance’s Future of Hope Institute After a national search, Johnson University has selected Dametraus Jaggers to be the director of its Future of Hope Institute, which is funded in large part by the Lilly Endowment Inc. Jaggers is [...]

Johnson University has received a $600,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support the creation of the Knoxville Future of Hope Institute. This grant was made available through the High School Youth Theology Institutes initiative, which seeks to encourage young people to explore theological traditions, ask questions about the moral dimensions of contemporary issues and [...]