The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis uses her gifts as author, activist, preacher, and public theologian toward creating an antiracist, just, gun violence free, fully welcoming, gender affirming society in which everyone has enough.

Jacqui is the Senior Minister at Middle Church. She is the first African American and first woman to serve as a senior minister in the Collegiate Church, which was founded in New York City in 1628 and is the oldest continuous Protestant Church in North America. A womanist theologian, Jacqui has preached in pulpits all over the nation, including at the Festival of Homiletics, the Wild Goose Festival, The Children’s Defense Fund’s Haley Farm, the  historic Apollo Theater, and at the American Church in Paris. She has shared the stage with some of our nations most powerful thought leaders, including Father Richard Rohr, Valarie Kaur, Ruby Sales, Bishop William Barber, V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Glennon Doyle. Jacqui has been in the media MSNOW,  ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS; on NPR, and in print media like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Ebony, Essence, the Huffington Post.