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REVEREND TERRI YVETTE CISSE
Protestant Christian Chaplain
Background and Personal Notes:
As Protestant Chaplain at Wellesley College Terri hopes to demonstrate the usefulness of the academic study of religion in ministry. Terri desires to approach ministry not just as a theoretical endeavor but also as a practical medium to contemporary, cross-cultural and interfaith communication. Her area of interest is in creating a narrative ministry model that focuses on viewing personal narratives as transformative markers for life and vocation. Like Jesus, she desires to use parables to help others “find God” in the stories of their lives. She is a candidate for ordination in the Presbyterian Church USA.
Terri received her undergraduate degree in history from the Mississippi University for Women where she was inducted into Phi Alpha Theta and was the recipient of the CLIO award for outstanding historical scholarship. She received her MA in Theological Studies with a concentration in Intercultural/Interfaith Communications from Columbia Seminary.
Terri is a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School where she received the Master of Divinity degree. At the divinity school she was the recipient of the Harvard Divinity School Black Seminarian Scholarship and was a national Fund for Theological Education Ministry Fellow program (on the ordination track in the PC USA) to increase her preparedness to play a valuable and vital leadership role in her church, community, and academia. In her role as an FTE fellow she received a grant to conduct ethnographic research of griotte women in Mali, West Africa to examine the practice and tradition of the transmission of religion through oral narratives and has served as a delegate to the Parliament of World Religions in Barcelona, Spain to examine and create models for interfaith dialogue. Terri also served President elect of the Harambee organization (representing students of African descent at the Harvard Divinity School). In the Harvard Divinity School Field Education program she worked as Research Assistant (Multi-Cultural/Urban Church division) for the Metropolitan Congregational Studies Project aims to discover the influence of globalization, pluralism, and socio-economic and racial constructions on local congregation. In continuing associated with this project she is working on a chapter to be included in the forthcoming book, Faith in Boston sponsored by the Lily Endowment.
Prior to coming to Wellesley College, Terri served as Seminarian for a two - year term working with the Reverend Professor Gomes at the Harvard Memorial Church. She has also served as an Chaplain at the Harvard Medical School teaching affiliates Dana Farber Cancer Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In addition to her work at Wellesley College Terri serves as the Church School Director at the Harvard Memorial Church. In the summers when she is on sabbatical from the Protestant Chaplaincy, Rev. Cisse he works as program facilitator for the Anti Defamation League’s World of Difference program and its Interfaith Youth Leadership Program (an ecumenical and interfaith program for students from public and private schools in the Boston metropolitan area). She also serves as a program coordinator for the Harvard Divinity School’s Summer Leadership Institute that trains local and national urban ministers in the areas of socio- economic development in partnership with the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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