Rev. Nelson Jerome Pierce, Jr. is the senior pastor of Beloved Community Church, and a Chief Political Officer with Transforming Change where he works to help leaders build power and create change.​ Rev. Pierce brings more than two decades of experience to Transforming Change. He has worked in senior leadership with national non-profits, built strategy, and advised on local, state, and congressional campaigns, ballot initiatives, and more.

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Rev. Pierce has served as a national spokesperson for the Black Church Initiative, a project of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. Rev. Pierce played a critical role in organizing clergy and young people in the aftermath of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO for which he is recognized in a video tribute in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington DC. Rev. Pierce is a proud alumnus of Eden Theological Seminary and Washington University in St. Louis.