Dr. Keri Day, Dr. Margaret Aymer, and Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas are among the African American women advancing in the field of theology and creating an example for their communities.
Day is the new associate professor of constructive theology and African American Religion at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. She will join the theology department this fall.
Dr. Keri L. Day
“[What] I hope to do now here at Princeton Theological Seminary is to be really unapologetically courageous about breaking these glass ceilings, about recognizing that their presence and their voices need to be in places like this,” said Day.
As a motivational lecturer for middle and high school students, she encourages young girls to find their passion and develop their own self confidence within it.
While completing her bachelor’s degree in political science at Tennessee State University, Day had the opportunity to travel the world where she noticed the importance of religion in politics, and how it impacts women and children. Religion has a role in the decisions of political leaders that shape the world view of a nation. This played a role in her interests in theology.
“There’s a lot of conflict within the political sphere and a lot of injustice based on how people construe what is ‘the will of god,’ or what their religion is telling them,” Day said.
