Michiana Adventist Forum

About the Speaker

Michael Nixon is the Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion at Andrews

University. He is also as an Associate Professor in the History & Political Science

Department where he teaches Pre-Law Courses. Prior to this work, Michael

served as the Legal Coordinator for the Fair Housing Justice Center in New York

City. He has a law degree from the John Marshall Law School (JMLS) in Chicago,

Illinois, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Andrews

University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. He became a member of the New York

State Bar in 2014. His previous experience has included the establishment of an

Office of Service and Social Action at the University of Saint Francis (Fort Wayne,

IN) while serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer, and working with the Council

on American Islamic Relations (CAIR – Chicago) and in The JMLS Fair Housing Legal

Clinic while a9ending law school in Chicago. Michael loves to communicate, and

he strives to do so through writing, teaching, and hosting the “Ingredients”

podcast. Michael co-founded “Against The Wall” along with his wife, Pastor

Tacyana Nixon, and Pastor Ty Gibson which focuses on speaking with passionate

clarity against walls of racial separation and injustice across the globe – both

inside and outside of the Adventist Church. Michael and his wife have a little girl,

Noa Elise Nixon who is 3.

About the Subject

The presentation will dialogue about past reform movements around the topics of

racial/social justice and what that means for today as we consider the church’s

direction on justice and reconciliation.

Andrews University Association of Adventist Forum Meetings October 3, 2018