Pastor eddie anderson
Rev. Edward” Eddie” Anderson is a passionate civil rights activist and ordained minister with degrees from Morehouse College and Claremont School of Theology. Rev.Anderson was born on Warner Robins Air Force base and raised on the Southside of Atlanta as the fourth (youngest)child of Rev.Ganus and Priscilla Anderson. Currently, he serves the historic McCarty Memorial Christian Church located in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Rev.Anderson affectionately known as Pastor Eddie is an Regional organizer for LA Voice(PICO),advocate for Black Lives Matter, Co-Founder of Clergy4BlackLives, a convener and former Co-Chair of the New Poor People's Campaign in California(led nationally by Rev.William Barber II) and was a Bethany and Preston Taylor Fellow.Rev. Anderson has served as a movement and thought leader for many of the local and state-wide reforms around transformative justice and has been jailed for justice at least 4 times. Reverend Anderson served as a Commissioner for the Los Angeles Redistricting Commission (2020-2021) and is on the board of the ARDI Advisory Body of Los Angeles County and the Black People Experiencing Homelessness Committee for LAHSA and LA County. He serves on the National Convocation Board as the President of Youth and Young Adults as well as the Regional Board for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) as Chairman of New Church Development. He is a sought out leader within his church denomination and served on every level of the church including his latest appointment to the General Ethics Commission of the denomination. Last year,Pastor Eddie was humbled to be awarded the honor of being a Leonard Beerman Fellow, a fellowship that has funded the work of rising political and civil rights leaders across the nation.
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Pastor Eddie serves on the Board of Directors for Claremont School of Theology as well as Progressive Christians Uniting and served on Crossroads for Women Inc, Eastmont Community Center boards raising the voices of those who are forced to live along the margins of society.Rev.Anderson Co-Organized Trust Talks LA with Rev.Delonte Gholston.Trust Talks is a award winning faith community-led initiative that brings together all sides of the Downtown Los Angeles community—including representatives of Skid Row, condo owners and renters, police, business owners, and activists—in discussions around race and policing.The model was also used to heal race relations in West Virginia. He continued this work for equity and repair as member of the Measure J Steering Committee, Black People Experiencing Homelessness Committee(LAHSA) and the community advisory board for the Los Angeles County Anti-Racisim, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative.
In 2020 Rev.Andeson co-founded the Partnership for Growth Los Angeles Community Development Corporation with Rabbi Joel Simonds, which has partnered with local communities to impact the lives of over 10k South LA residents to date and will break ground on the largest Urban farms program in SD30 and the 37th Congressional district in a decade.
Rev.Anderson core values around impactive community engagement, civil rights, brotherhood and faith stem from the legacy of his late grandfather the Honorable Rev.Willie Anderson Sr, a civil rights icon in South GA,Pastor and elected official. While he has been honored to serve in many capacities which have afforded him to be seen and heard on television, radio and become a published author; his greatest accomplishment to date has been to be the son of Rev.Ganus and Priscilla Anderson, a good little brother to his 3 older siblings and the husband to Clare Anderson-Fox.
The scripture of calling for Pastor Eddie’s life has been Isaiah, Chapter 42, verses 1-7 which says in part, “I am the LORD. I have called you in righteous, I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a Covenant to the people, a light to the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.”
