Eruke is a staff Chaplain at the Oregon Health and Science University Hospital in Portland, Oregon. She brings experience as a Baptist and CME licensed minister and clinical chaplain having worked in ecumenical, hospice, and hospital settings. Eruke holds a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and is currently a doctoral student at Claremont School of

Theology in the Department of Religion for comparative theology and interreligious education.

As a second-generation Nigerian American who grew up Jackson, Mississippi, her theological background is pluralistic as a daughter of the Black Church tradition (Baptist), West African

Urhobo culture, and the peculiar fusion of those intersecting worlds and spiritualities lived in the context of the American South. Eruke’s doctoral research is in Ecowomanist theory in the exploration of scholar Melanie Harris’ methodologies of ecojustice that point toward a theology and future where we are reconnected with the life sustaining practices of honoring land, particularly in Black and African contexts, and throughout the world as a continual decolonizing and futuristic faith practice. 

Among awards and community engagement, Eruke is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, a Forum of Theological Exploration Nurturing the Next Generation of Scholars Fellow, a Princeton Seminary Engle Institute Preaching Fellow, and a contributor to the Racial Equity Community of Practice (ReCop) Human Rights Curriculum Initiative in her home state of Mississippi. She hopes to always bring a sense of joy and poetry, and deep gratitude to beloved community in her faith, life, and work.