Jason D. Thompson

Pastor

The Rev. Dr. Jason D. Thompson is pastor of Sacramento’s St. Andrews AME Church, the oldest historically Black congregation on the West Coast. Additionally, he is an inaugural faculty member of the new Black Honors College at California State University, Sacramento.

Thompson has held previous faculty appointments at NYU, Arizona State University and Appalachian State University. He is a co-editor of the upcoming book “If Colors Could Be Heard: Narratives About Racial Identity in Music Education” (Intellect Books).

He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and his doctorate at Northwestern University. He is the Ducree-Turner Fellow at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.