Marlene Lang is author of "Listening for Change," published in 2024 by Pickwick. The former professional journalist and award-winning columnist has also been Asst. Professor of Religious Studies at Mount St. Joseph University.
From 2005-10, she penned her column for the SouthtownStar, part of Sun-Times Media. She has more than a decade of experience as a government newspaper reporter and an editor. As a county government reporter, she sniffed out budget misrepresentations and efforts at the prison to hide holding-cell tuberculosis exposures among immigration detainees. She covered the nuclear power industry up close as editor of Three Mile Island's hometown paper. Her columns have taken up politics, civil liberties, and social justice issues, served on "wry."
Her doctoral study at St. Thomas University was informed by her journalist's observation of social justice as a practical, not abstract, concern. Dr. Lang's dissertation is a social analysis of contemporary First Nations voices, as published digitally and in print, with a methodology of respectful listening, toward healing and reconciliation.
She earned her master of arts in spirituality in 2011 at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. Lang also holds a degree in philosophy from Millersville University of Pennsylvania.

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