Nicholas Pearce

A native of Chicago, Rev. Nicholas Pearce has established himself as a scholar, speaker, and community servant. Nicholas describes himself as "most importantly, a servant of God and others" and has a true passion for helping people. Nicholas answered the call to preach and teach the Word of God at the age of seventeen and currently serves as an Associate Minister of the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, IL under the leadership of Bishop Arthur M. Brazier. He has been privileged to conduct several workshops and give numerous keynotes and speeches across the nation, including the distinguished Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Undergraduate Address at MIT in 2004. Nicholas has been featured in Time Magazine and several other national media outlets, and in 2006, he was honored by The Christian Outlook magazine as one of “Today’s Joshuas.”

Nicholas graduated from Chicago’s well-reputed Whitney Young Magnet High School with honors in 2003 and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA in 2007. With his degree, he also completed the concentration in Religious Studies in conjunction with the Harvard Divinity School. While at MIT, Nicholas founded two Christian ministries on campus and served on a number of boards, including the MIT Corporation Joint Advisory Committee on Institute-Wide Affairs, the Faculty Policy Committee, and the Student Advisory Board to the MIT Federal Credit Union. As a part of his commitment to community service, Nicholas served as an instructor and mentor to over 100 Boston area public high school students in MIT’s Saturday Engineering Enrichment Discovery (SEED) Academy for three years. He has been named an American Chemical Society Scholar, Coca-Cola Foundation Scholar, National Black MBA Association Scholar, 2006 Harvard Business School SVMP Fellow, and 2006 Harvard University Galbraith Scholar, and is also a recipient of the United States Presidential Service Award and the Illinois Governor's Award for Excellence in Education.  

Nicholas is currently pursuing the Ph.D. in Management and Organizations as a doctoral student at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, conducting research on institutional leadership and organizational change, and firmly believes “to whom much is given, much is required.”