Welcome to Lansing Rev. Dr. Patricia Coleman-Burns

Rev. Dr. Patricia Coleman-Burns

 

LANSING, MI — A “First Lady Celebration” was held for Rev. Dr. Patricia Coleman-Burns.  She is the wife of Rev. John H. Burns, II, pastor of St. Matthew A.M.E. Church, located on 522 West Maple St.  She  is also an Assistant Professor of Nursing and Black Studies at the University of Michigan.

 

Rev. Pat is a long-time advocate for the rights of all persons to be free from gender oppression, sexism, racism and violence. She is an ordained Elder married to Rev. John H. Burns II, Pastor of St. Matthew A.M.E.

Church in Lansing, MI. Here she serves as First Lady, Director of Christian Education, Coordinator of Sunday School, Sankofa, Kwanzaa, and the Rev. Rosa L. Porter Women’s Missionary Society. Her guiding scripture is: ”I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.” Jeremiah 29:11 (Message)

 

Rev. Dr. Patricia Coleman-Burns works conscientiously on the 4th District Connectional level. She served as Kingdom initiative Luncheon Chairperson for the 2011 Annual Women in Ministry, Come to Michigan: from many nations on Sisterhood Revival; project manager for Episcopal Supervisor Rev. Dr. Cecelia Williams Bryant, 11 Day Health Mission to the Kingdom of Lesotho, Sub-Saharan Africa in 2010; coordinator for the Sister Summit: God’s Daughter’s United together to Pray for Change in 2009, and served as Dean of Sacred Worship Events for the Women global Imitative in Toronto, Ontario.

 

Rev. Dr. Patricia Coleman-Burns has a remarkably diverse civic, social and work history. She worked for Motown records Industries in Detroit from 1969-1972 in Publicity and Public Relations (P&PR) traveling the country with many of the headline groups as the advance person, and keeping them away from bad

publicity. 

 

She was blessed to work directly for Junius Griffin, Vice-President of P&PR, who served as a speech writer for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During her tenure at Motown they released “The Great

March to Freedom” album featuring the “I Have A Dream” speech and supported the Chicago Black expo of Operation Breadbasket. She created the first Women’s Studies Course I the Detroit Movement focusing on Black women in America in 1974, and co-founded the Detroit Chapter of the National Black

 

Feminist Organization in 1976. From 1991-1996 she served as President and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Justice Center in Detroit, MI. The Center is a shelter for battered women and their children called My Sister’s Place, where she instituted a teen-networking project to prevent date rape and violence. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the Washtenaw County Safe House Center Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Rev. Dr. Patricia Coleman-Burns is an Assistant Professor of Nursing and Adjunct/Affiliated Professor in the Department for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is Special Advisor on Multicultural Affairs

 

and Ombudsman for graduate and undergraduate students. She is Project Director of the Genesis II Project involving the recruitment and retention of persons from economically and educationally disadvantaged populations including persons from racially and ethnically underrepresented populations into professional nursing careers. Rev. Dr. Patricia Coleman-Burns has secured grants exceeding 2 million dollars.

 

Rev. Dr. Patricia Coleman-Burns is listed in the Who’s Who Among Black Americans, Who’s Who of American Women, and Who’s Who in Health Sciences Education. Her awards include: The Individual Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award; The Faculty Cornerstone Award; The Salute to African American Women: Elements of Beauty Award; the first recipient of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses; and the School of Nursing Mae Edna Doyle Teacher of the Year Award.