Adjunct Faculty
- Oklahoma Christian University, B.S. Social Work
- Brite Divinity School, M.Div. with a Certificate in Black Church Studies
- Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Doctor of Ministry in Transformative Leadership and Prophetic Preaching
- Co-Pastor of The Gathering, A Womanist Church of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Dallas, Texas
- CEO of DreamBIG Coaching & Consulting
- Author, The Gathering, A Womanist Church: Origins, Stories, Sermons, & Litanies, Badass Women of the Bible, and Murdered Souls, Resurrected Lives.
Dr. Irie Lynne Session is an award-winning minister, pastor, author, TEDx presenter, spiritual entrepreneur, transformation strategist, and Womanist practitioner. She began her service to humanity by ministering to those marginalized in society due to incarceration, addiction, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, and HIV/AIDS histories. Dr. Irie is currently the Co-Pastor of The Gathering, A Womanist Church of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Dallas, Texas; and CEO of DreamBIG Coaching & Consulting where she strategizes with women in ministry and the marketplace to discern and eliminate barriers to flourishing. In 2020, due to high demand, DreamBIG Consulting services expanded to include Anti-Racism Training & Education for churches and other non-profit organizations. DreamBIG ART has provided Anti-Racism Training & Education to non-profits, hospitals, and churches both locally and nationally.
Dr. Irie is a recipient of a $50,000 Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Grant (2022-2023) from Christian Theological Seminary and a 2019 recipient of a $15,000 Pastoral Study Project Grant from the Louisville Institute. Her Pastoral Study Project research was titled, Womanist Ecclesiologies: Black Women Resisting White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy. Also, in 2019 Dr. Irie was inducted into the 2020 Board of Preachers in the Martin Luther King Jr. International College of Ministers and Laity at Morehouse College.
Dr. Irie is co-author of, The Gathering, A Womanist Church: Origins, Stories, Sermons, & Litanies. She is also author of Badass Women of the Bible and, Murdered Souls, Resurrected Lives. Her latest Journal article with Luther Seminary’s Word & World is titled, “Sawubona in a Pandemic: Black Women, Embodied Ecclesiology, and Sacred Spaces in Cyberspace.”
