Sherice Janaye Nelson

Dr. Sherice Janaye Nelson is a speaker, author, researcher, and an Assistant Professor at Southern University and A&M College. At Southern, she is the Director of the Jewel Limar Prestage Public Policy, Polling and Research Center (JLPC), which performs mixed methods research that tell the stories of Blacks with data. Nelson is a proud alumnus of Howard University where she received a Doctorate of Philosophy in Political Science, specializing in International Relations, Black Politics, and American Government. These specializations have defined her as a Black Diaspora scholar who focuses on the political, social, and economic effects of chattel slavery in American democracy and on democracies around the globe. She is the originator of the term Insulated Blackness, which was explored in her co-authored piece “Insulated Blackness: A Cause for Fracture in Black Political Identity.” Dr. Nelson's book The Congressional Black Caucus: Fifty Years of Fighting for Equality was released in December of 2021. She is an executive board member for the Center for Racial Justice at Dillard University. Dr. Nelson earned her Master of Public Administration focusing in Public Management at the University of the District of Columbia, and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a dual degree in History and English from Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.