Rev. Dr Bernice Powell Jackson

WCC president from North America

Rev. Dr Bernice Powell Jackson, of the United Church of Christ (USA), has served as president of the WCC from North America since 2004. She served on the national staff of the UCC for nearly twenty years, most recently as one of the five officers of the church and as head of Justice and Witness Ministries. During the 1980s, she was director of the Bishop Tutu Scholarship Fund in the US, where she worked closely with the Archbishop. She has worked for more than three decades on civil rights, human rights and justice issues, and is a much-sought-after preacher. Currently, she is doing pastoral ministry with a New Orleans UCC congregation which is without a pastor, helping it to recover from the wounds left by the hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Interview with Rev. Dr Bernice Powell Jackson