Michael Jefferson is a preaching, teaching, scientist who is passionate about delivering justice through religion, education, and energy. Michael earned a B.S. Environmental Science from Florida A&M University in 2013 and a dual Master of Public Affairs and M.S. in Environmental Science from Indiana University in 2019. He was a 2014 Teach For America Corps member, teaching chemistry in Byhalia, MS and Memphis, TN.
Michael graduated in May 2022 with a Master of Divinity from Christian Theological Seminary, in Indianapolis, IN. He is a native of Indianapolis, the eldest of four, a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and President of the Indiana Chapter of the American Association of Blacks in Energy.
He is the pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church in Richmond, IN, and is an ordained Itinerant
Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Michael is the Secretary of the South District of the Indiana Conference, Secretary of the Indiana Annual Conference, and the First Vice President of the Young Adult Network of the Fourth Episcopal District.
March 11-12, 2020
Sunday, September 19, 2019
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Sunday, July 28, 2019
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