Tamekia A. Milton, M.Div.
Tamekia A. Milton is an inspiring, compassionate, and innovative servant-leader who is passionate about seeing individuals thrive and flourish wholistically- spirit, mind, body, and soul. She skillfully leads and serves to cultivate people, systems, organizations, and communities to produce and maximize their purpose, goals, and vision, to materialize change, progress, and transformation. With over 15 years in corporate leadership in Healthcare Administration and Academia, and 20+ years in Parish Ministry and Community Advocacy, she has honed a presence, methodologies, concepts, and approaches that nurture emergence and promote wellbeing.
As an intercultural leader and educator in Spiritual Health and Chaplaincy, Tamekia is a sought-out lecturer, panelist, conference speaker, and civic leader on issues and topics of race, ethnicity, equity, diversity, and inclusion (DEI), psychosocial development, pastoral care, trauma-informed spiritual care, spirituality, wholistic health and healing, and Christian formation and witness. She is an ACPE Certified Educator and an ordained Pastor in the Baptist tradition who embodies her motto, “Living to Serve, Accomplishing to Impart.” She holds a B. A. in Music Performance and Education from Clark Atlanta University (Atlanta, GA), and earned a Master of Divinity Degree with a Certificate in Religious Education and Formation & Witness, from Emory University, Candler School of Theology (Atlanta, GA). She is a Social Psychology PhD candidate, at Liberty University (Lynchburg, VA).
Tamekia's professional leadership activities include having served as the first Pastor of Community Education for The Johns Hopkins Health System Medical Religious Partnership; a Consulting Spiritual Health Clinician for the American College of Physicians, Maryland Chapter; The Johns Hopkins Hospital- Ethics Committee Member; numerous regional and national committees for the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE).
Academics
- BA, Clark Atlanta University
- MDiv, Emory University
Recent Vocational History
- 2012-2015, Chaplain/ACPE Certified Educator Candidate, Veteran Administration Medical Center, Hampton Va
- 2015-2018, Associate Educator and Chaplain, Spiritual Care, Brookwood Baptist Health System, Birmingham, AL
- 2018-2023, Manager of Academic Affairs in Spiritual Health, The Johns Hopkins Health System, Baltimore MD
Writings
- You Can, You Will, You Shall, You Must: The Art of Pursuing and Fulfilling Purpose, Promise, and Destiny (2022)