"Looking Back" Brown Bag Lecture Series

"Looking Back Brown Bag" Lecture Series

Guest Speaker: Dr. Araminta Sorrell

Topic: "Waves of Faith: The Origin Story of Galveston's Black Nuns"

Dr. Araminta Coleman Sorrell is a Galveston resident, Galveston Certified Tourism Ambassador, and a retired educator. She is certified by the state of Texas as a secondary social studies and K-12 special education teacher. She holds a bachelor's degree in history and government from HBCU Bowie State University, Bowie Maryland, and a PhD in education from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

In 2013, she retired from Johns Hopkins University, School of Education, where she implemented school-wide strategies in low performing high poverty schools in major cities across the country. These strategies were designed to increase attendance for students and teachers and to decrease suspensions, in and out of school. Afterwards, she taught social studies at Sam Houston High School in San Antonio until she retired again in 2021.

Dr. Sorrell is a frequent volunteer at the Nia Cultural Center and is the Vice President of the Galveston United Juneteenth Alliance. She is also a member of the Galveston Historic Foundation's African American Heritage Committee. She serves as an usher at her church, Reedy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Dr. Sorrell is the proud owner and operator of Juneteenth and Beyond Guided Tours which is the first and only African American Galveston guided tour company. She was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and lived there until 2001 when she moved to Houston with her late husband, Dr. Adrian Sorrell, whom she met at the University of Virginia.

Grab your lunch and come join us for this wonderful series.