Brookmeade is excited to welcome guest preacher Dr. Tammy Lewis Wilborn this Sunday, September 1st!
New Orleans native, Dr. Tammy Lewis Wilborn (she/her) is a retired board-certified licensed
professional counselor-supervisor with 20+ years of professional experience. Among her other
accomplishments, Dr. Wilborn owned and managed a solo clinical mental health private practice,
held faculty appointments at the University of New Orleans and Xavier University of Louisiana,
founded the annual Black Women’s Wellness Conference of New Orleans, and authored Playing
A New Game: A Black Woman’s Guide to Being Well and Thriving in the Workplace. As a mental
health and wellness expert and professional keynote speaker, Dr. Wilborn has informed,
inspired, and ignited audiences of all types to be well, whole, and free as God intended.
Dr. Wilborn holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, a Master of Science in Counseling, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
from Loyola University of New Orleans. She is also a 2021 graduate of Loyola University of New
Orleans’ Women’s Leadership Academy.
In 2020, Dr. Wilborn answered her call to ministry and began graduate studies in the fall of 2022
at Vanderbilt Divinity School (VDS). In December 2024, she will graduate from VDS with a Master
of Divinity degree and a concentration in Pastoral and Prophetic Congregational Leadership. She
is a Member-In-Discernment in the Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ and an
active member of Howard Congregational United Church of Christ, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dr. Wilborn is married and is the mother of two adult sons and a teenage son who thinks he’s an
adult.
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