The Rev. Jim Sessions

Knoxville, TN

The Rev. Jim Sessions is the President of the Working America Education Fund. United Methodist minister who has lived and worked in Southern Appalachia for over thirty years. He has served as an executive director for the following social and economic justice organizations: Southern Appalachian Ministry, Southerners for Economic Justice, the Commission on Religion in Appalachia, the Highlander Research and Education Center, and the Union Community Fund of the AFL-CIO. He also has worked as a program  director for the Children’s Defense Fund’s national training center: Alex Haley Farm. Prior to those years he was chaplain at several universities: Princeton, Drew, Brown, Harvard, and MIT.