Senior Pastor, Scholar, Multi-Published Author, Earth Theologian, Engineer, Double Duke Graduate
Reverend Dr. Sequola Dawson
Reverend Dr. Sequola Dawson is the senior pastor of St. Mary African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is a multi-published author of several works that include The Glad Funeral; Grandma Already Told Me: Creating Life for Children Even In Death; Grandpa Already Told Me: The Green Funeral For Children; “Green funerals are one way for Christian leaders to promote creation care”; “Black Churches and Green Funerals: How green funeral and burial practices can be part of the Black Church tradition, aesthetics, and sensitivity to ecological justice”; “Towards A Model of Risk-Taking in Teleoperations”; and Telerobotic Operator Risk-Taking Behavior: An Exploratory Investigation in Hazardous Material Handling.
A former member of the Board of Directors of the Green Burial Council, Rev. Dawson earned Doctor of Ministry degrees from Duke Divinity School and Payne Theological Seminary; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial and Systems Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She earned a Master of Science in Software Engineering from Southern Polytechnic State University (now Kennesaw State University), Master of Arts in Christian Practice from Duke Divinity School, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Fayetteville State University. Additionally, she treasures deeply the supplementary learning gained inside the hallowed halls at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, and in chaplaincy, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Grandma Already Told Me
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