Angela D. Sims was elected to serve as AAR’s Vice President in 2025, President-Elect in 2026, and as AAR’s President in 2027.
Angela D. Sims is the thirteenth president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (CRCDS)—the first woman president of CRCDS and the first African American woman president to lead any Rochester-area college. A Christian social ethicist, she is the author of Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror (Baylor, 2016) and co-editor with Katie Geneva Cannon and Emilie M. Townes of Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader (Westminster John Knox, 2011). She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
Sims began her service to the AAR in 2005 as a student member of the Mid-Atlantic Region Board of Directors and a student liaison to the national organization. She has served on the Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group Steering Committee; the Career Services Advisory Committee; the Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. Group Steering Committee; an advisory member to the Critical Whiteness Studies and Religion Exploratory Session; the Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture Unit Steering Committee; the Theological Education Committee; the Finance Committee; and the Strategic Planning Team Taskforce.