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Auburn Theological Seminary, located in New York City, trains leaders who are working on progressive social issues. It offers workshops, provides consulting, and conducts research on faith leadership development. The seminary was established in Auburn, NY, in 1818 to prepare young ministers for the frontier. Weakened by the Great Depression, Auburn relocated in 1939 to Union Theological Seminary's campus in New York City, although it maintained its independence from Union. In 2014, it designed and moved to a new leadership development lab in the Interchurch Center in Morningside Heights. Auburn houses the only research center in the U.S. focused on the study of seminaries, divinity schools, and the preparation of faith leaders working for social justice. Auburn was one of the first seminaries in the country to admit African Americans (Moses Hopkins, 1877), Japanese (Naomi Tamura, 1882) and later, female seminarians (Ida Thorne Parker, 1917).
