Quick Credentials

Honors and Experience

  • Recipient of national Baptist Women in Ministry’s (BWIM’s) 2023 Frankie Huff Granger Distinguished Mentor Award

  • Church consultant with the Center for Congregational Health, a ministry of the FaithHealth Division of Atrium Health’s Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centers

  • Adjunct instructor for students at Duke Divinity School (MDiv), Campbell University Divinity School (MDiv), and Central Theological Seminary (DMin)

  • Mentor and advisor for many current or aspiring Christian leaders, coaching them as individuals, groups, or professional cohorts

  • Over two decades of experience meeting the challenges of professional ministry while supporting a family

  • Fourteen years of employment as a senior pastor in the free church tradition (Baptist) 

  • Decades of advocacy and mentoring for women in leadership

  • Valuable network of denominational relationships, especially among the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Alliance of Baptists

  • Beneficiary of individual and group coaching under multiple coaches for over a decade

Education

  • Training in the International Coaching Federation’s (ICF’s) Core Competencies and Code of Ethics

  • Church consultant training with the Center for Congregational Health, a ministry of the FaithHealth division of Atrium Health’s Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centers

  • Doctorate in Ministry degree at Baptist Theology Seminary of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia

  • Master of Divinity degree at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Religion at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee

Fun Fact

I was “Izzy” at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, one of only six mascots that year. I was not present during the bombing at Centennial Park, but my friends, family, and the FBI all wondered if I was.