Tamice Spencer-Helms, M.A., ThM, D.Min. is a scholar-practitioner working at the intersections of Quare theology and contemplative formation. They earned a Doctor of Ministry in Social Transformation from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, where their dissertation, Queering Student Formation, developed Soulful Leadership Theory and the R.E.S.T. Mixtape as frameworks for counter-formative pedagogy with emerging adults in post-Christian contexts.

Their teaching and writing draw on hush harbor praxis as a theological and pedagogical method, engage hip-hop and black cultural aesthetic production as sacred text, and advance the SEENA framework (Somatic, Epistemological, Existential, Neurobiological, Ancestral) as a multi-dimensional model for what they call “hospicing whiteness”.

Spencer-Helms is the author of Faith Unleavened (2023) and is completing Light These Roots on Fire (2027), a memoir-theology hybrid weaving personal narrative with womanist theology, hush harbor hermeneutics, and scriptural exegesis.

Outside the academy, Spencer-Helms is the founder of Mixtape Praxus, lead curator of The Clearing Online, and host of the Black Modern Mystic podcast.