Adelle M. Banks is the projects editor and a national reporter for RNS, covering topics including religion and race, the faith of African Americans and partnerships between government and religious groups. An award-winning journalist, Banks joined RNS in 1995. She previously was the religion reporter at the Orlando Sentinel and a reporter at The Providence Journal and newspapers in the upstate New York communities of Syracuse and Binghamton. She is the co-author of Becoming a Future-Ready Church: 8 Shifts to Encourage and Empower the Next Generation of Leaders (2024). Find her on LinkedIn @adellebanks.