Rev. Rondrea Mathis, Ph.D. is a two-time graduate of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee, Florida and holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Master of Education in Secondary Education/English Education. She also earned her Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature from the University of South Florida and has taken courses in Black Theology, Black Homiletics, and both the Old and New Testaments at Bethune-Cookman University. Her ongoing academic research focuses on how Black Christian women achieve self-definition, and her popular writing addresses Black women who are S.I.N.K.ing (Single Income/No Kids), but not drowning. Dr. Mathis has also received research funding from the Mellon/DuPont Foundation.

Dr. Mathis is a licensed Baptist minister, and in Daytona Beach, served as campus advisor for Sister 2 Sister/Lotus, Incorporated, co-advisor for the Gay-Straight Alliance, and co-advisor of the Bethune-Cookman University Section of the National Council of Negro Women. Nationally, she is a life member of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University National Alumni Association and a volunteer with the YMCA.

Dr. Mathis is also a life member of the College Language Association and a member of the Modern Language Association. She also currently serves as the Secretary and Communications Director for the College Language Association.

Dr. Mathis is also co-editor of the volume, Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told About Black Women, editor of the collection, How Black Women Use Academia as Activism, and is under contract with the University Press of Mississippi for No Pulpit for Her Heels: Black Women’s Fiction as Womanist Theology.

She is also an avid proponent of radical self-care and a skilled nap-taker.

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