March 2025
Rev. Sherri L. Brown Jackson
Rev. Dr. Sherri L. Brown Jackson is a native of Hammond, Louisiana, and a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana. A retired journalist with 20 years of experience, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1987 from Southeastern Louisiana University, a Master of Education in 2003 from the University of Wisconsin, a Master of Divinity in 2016, and a Doctor of Ministry in 2024, both from United Theological Seminary.
Rev. Jackson preached her first sermon in May 2003 in Racine, Wisconsin, and was ordained in 2008.
A Board-Certified Chaplain specializing in Hospice and Palliative Care, she serves veterans through the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System in New Orleans. Her deep commitment to spiritual care and justice is shaped by her womanist theological framework, which centers Black women’s lived experiences, affirms their divine worth, and challenges patriarchal structures that seek to silence them.
Dr. Sherri is dedicated to empowering women in ministry—helping them discover, accept, and master their call to preach. As the chief academician of The PreacHERS Academy, she cultivates a space where women clarify their callings, give credence to their voices, and develop confidence in their intellect. The Academy is not just for preaching women but for all women who refuse to accept the outdated notion that they are to be seen and not heard.
A three-time Amazon best-selling author, she has written:
• Sermon Prep Made Easy: Six Steps Every Preacher Should Take Before Reaching the Pulpit
• Silent Not Me: Reimagining the Biblical Text That Keeps Women Out of the Pulpit
• Evolving: Twenty Years of Preaching & Passionately Disrupting Patriarchy
In May 2024, Dr. Sherri earned her Doctor of Ministry from United Theological Seminary, with her dissertation titled: Preaching Women Matter: Overcoming Patriarchy and Establishing Models That Affirm Preaching Women in Alexandria, Louisiana & Beyond. Through her work, Dr. Sherri remains deeply committed to disrupting patriarchal systems, amplifying the voices of Black women in faith spaces, and creating models of ministry that affirm, rather than diminish, women’s callings. But at the heart of it all, she simply calls herself:
“A little country preacher girl from the 800 block of Mooney Avenue.”
Rev. Jackson preached her first sermon in May 2003 in Racine, Wisconsin, and was ordained in 2008.
A Board-Certified Chaplain specializing in Hospice and Palliative Care, she serves veterans through the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System in New Orleans. Her deep commitment to spiritual care and justice is shaped by her womanist theological framework, which centers Black women’s lived experiences, affirms their divine worth, and challenges patriarchal structures that seek to silence them.
Dr. Sherri is dedicated to empowering women in ministry—helping them discover, accept, and master their call to preach. As the chief academician of The PreacHERS Academy, she cultivates a space where women clarify their callings, give credence to their voices, and develop confidence in their intellect. The Academy is not just for preaching women but for all women who refuse to accept the outdated notion that they are to be seen and not heard.
A three-time Amazon best-selling author, she has written:
• Sermon Prep Made Easy: Six Steps Every Preacher Should Take Before Reaching the Pulpit
• Silent Not Me: Reimagining the Biblical Text That Keeps Women Out of the Pulpit
• Evolving: Twenty Years of Preaching & Passionately Disrupting Patriarchy
In May 2024, Dr. Sherri earned her Doctor of Ministry from United Theological Seminary, with her dissertation titled: Preaching Women Matter: Overcoming Patriarchy and Establishing Models That Affirm Preaching Women in Alexandria, Louisiana & Beyond. Through her work, Dr. Sherri remains deeply committed to disrupting patriarchal systems, amplifying the voices of Black women in faith spaces, and creating models of ministry that affirm, rather than diminish, women’s callings. But at the heart of it all, she simply calls herself:
“A little country preacher girl from the 800 block of Mooney Avenue.”