Dr. Indhira M. Udofia
LCSW, MDiv, MSW, STM
Dr. Indhira M. Udofia (she/they) is a scholar-practitioner working at the intersections of Black religion, trauma, and institutional life. She is Teaching Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Faculty Director of the Colorado Women's College Leadership Scholars Program at the University of Denver — and a licensed clinical social worker whose practice spans clinical, spiritual, and organizational contexts.
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This site is their academic portfolio. Their broader work lives across three platforms: IMU Consulting and Counseling (therapeutic practice and organizational consulting), Sanctuary of the Seeking (spiritual companioning, theology, and trauma-informed ministry coaching for spiritual practitioners and those navigating spiritual vocations), and Musings from the Church Gworl Maroon (public scholarship — coming soon).
"Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war."
Toni Cade Bambara
Meet Indhira Udofia
Indhira Udofia (she/they) is a queer womanist scholar of Black religious lives, subcultures, and institutional formation — and a licensed clinician whose work centers spiritual trauma, institutional governance, and the politics of belonging in Black communities.
Her research examines the Black Church not simply as a faith tradition but as a technology — a system through which Black people make meaning of Black life and possibility, navigate institutional power, and negotiate healing and harm simultaneously. Her dissertation, Harm in the Hush Harbor, uses mixed methods and narrative interviews to build a culturally reflexive typology of spiritual harm in Black church contexts.
Indhira's praxis is integrative: she holds commitments to rigorous scholarship, trauma-informed clinical practice, organizational consulting, and the kind of public theology that serves people living in the gap between institutions and the sacred itself. They teach at the University of Denver, direct the Colorado Women's College Leadership Scholars Program, and maintain active clinical licensure in Virginia, North Carolina, and Colorado.
