Jerilyn Upton Sanders is a Preacher's Kid from from rural Tennessee. She has a B.A. in Psychology from Biola University and an Ed.M. in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Jerilyn's current position with the Chalmers Center synthesizes a number of life and ministry experiences: love for people, passion for education that empowers disenfranchised people, and a desire to see God’s church be all that He meant it to be. Jerilyn and her husband, Duane, have two energetic children together.