Rev. Dr. Sheila Peters, Pastor

Pastor Peters joined Braden Memorial in 2018 and serves as a local pastor in the United Methodist Church. She also serves as an Associate Professor at Fisk University, former Interim Director of the Fisk Race Relations Institute, a national expert on youth development in the juvenile justice arena and provides training on gender-specific programming for females and males at risk for entering the juvenile justice system. She is a past president of the Nashville Branch of the NAACP and former Commissioner of the Metro Human Relations Commission, among other positions. Dr. Peters serves as the Chair of the TN Caucus of Black Methodists for Church Renewal (BMCR). She is humbled every day to serve as the pastor of Braden Memorial UMC.