Dr. Sherice Janaye Nelson

Dr. Sherice Janaye Nelson is a speaker, author, researcher, and has a decade of higher education experience. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and other premier institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Los Angeles, California. She was the inaugural Director for the Jewel Limar Prestage Public Policy, Polling, and Research Center, which preforms mixed methods research that tell the stories of Blacks with data at Southern University.

She is a proud alumna of Howard University and as a political analyst, provides commentary for the Harold Fisher Show on WHUR & Sirius XM. There she received a Doctorate of Philosophy in Political Science at 27 years old specializing in Black Politics, and International Relations. These specializations have defined her as a Black Diaspora scholar who focuses on the political, social, and economic effects of chattel slavery on present day democracies.

She is the originator of the term Insulated Blackness, which speaks to African Americans separation from Black political identity due to infrequent experiences of racial discrimination. Dr. Nelson is the recent author of Visibly Invisible. Black Women of the Congressional Black Caucus the work discuss the erasure of Black women in the push for democracy legislatively.

She is married to the Rev. Dr. John K. Coar III and serves alongside him as the First Lady of the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. She is the mother to a son Carter and daughter Jamiya who give her hope about the future of America.