Keynote Speaker & Consultant

Dr. Sherice Janaye Nelson is the founder of Dr. Janaye Executes a boutique consulting firm built around her speaking, research, and 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 Black Americans with data at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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. This was explored in her co-authored piece “Insulated Blackness: A Cause for Fracture in Black Political Identity.” She wrote The Congressional Black Caucus: Fifty Years of Fighting for Equality, the only comprehensive work on the impact the Black caucus has had on the American landscape. She also co-authored Why Wait Your Turn Means No Turn At All: A Millennial Perspective of Black Church, College and Community, which speaks to the generational differences that hinder unity and progress in Black spaces.

She is an executive board member for the Center for Racial Justice at Dillard University, and for the New Global Politics, a California think-tank. Dr. Nelson is the 2023 Anna Julia Cooper Teacher of the Year awarded by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. She is only Historically Black College or University (HBCU) educated, and earned her Masters 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.