Rev. Emily Carroll is the Sr. Pastor of the Shady Grove United Methodist Church in Mansfield, Louisiana. Prior to her current appointment, she served as senior pastor of the St. James United Methodist Church of Shreveport. She currently serves on the Mission and Mercy Ministry Team and the Annual Conference Design Team for the Louisiana Annual Conference and is a certified on-boarding trainer for those newly appointed as Senior and/or Associate Pastors in the UMC South-Central Jurisdiction.
In 2008 she attained her M.Div. Theta Phi (Religious Honors Society) from the Morehouse School of Religion at The Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC). Rev. Carroll volunteered as the Children/Youth Minister at the Leland Qwest United Methodist Church of Mableton, Georgia, a cross-racial congregation, and later served in the Children’s Chapel of the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church under the pastorate of The Honorable Senator, Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock. In 2014, she became the Children and Youth Minister at the First Calvary Baptist Church of Durham, NC. Rev. Carroll received her ordination from the American Baptist Churches/USA and serves as an Other Fellowship (OF) Pastor in the Louisiana Conference.
As an advocate for environmental justice, she serves as the Director of Green the Church Louisiana, an affiliate chapter of GTC: a national initiative whose purpose is to explore and expand the role of African American churches as centers for environmental and economic resilience. Rev. Carroll studied Environmental Leadership at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, and has presented at environmental workshops, conferences, and rallies nationwide. In 2023 she served as part of the UMC COP28 Delegation and ventured to Dubai, UAE to take part in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.