Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Coleman Dowdy is a Texan by birth; however, raised in Seattle,
Washington, and a Californian by choice. Dowdy graduated from high school at
age sixteen as valedictorian of her class.
She matriculated at the University of Washington, Seattle;
the University of Maryland, overseas; New York Newspaper Institute, distance learning; International Correspondence School
of Business; Clayton School of Natural Healing; Word of Faith Satellite School of Ministry; and Rio Hondo Community College.
Dowdy is an Ordained Minister of the gospel
of Jesus of Nazareth, associate pastor of House of Prayer International in Victorville; a natural health advocate, she operated
the High Desert Herb Society from 1994 through 2000, and continues to speak on issues of preventative medicine.
She has served as president of the Victor
Valley African American Chamber of Commerce, Executive Board member and secretary of the California African American Chamber
of Commerce, Executive Board member of the following: National Council of Negro Women, High Desert Section; Roadrunner District of the California Garden Clubs;
High Desert Astronomical Society and Cactus Wren Garden Club.
Dowdy could be described as a real renaissance
woman, she is an amateur astronomer, and wrote a training manual for the former Science and Technology Center in Apple Valley. She is a photo-journalist for the Precinct Reporter Newsgroup, Editor for the Word
News and will soon publish her first two books that she has written concurrently. She
also writes and reads poetry.
Rev. Dowdy is a veteran of the Women's Army Corps,
a life member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; life member of National Council of Negro
Women, member of the Association of Black Military Women. She is also proud to
be a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club and other environmental groups advocating for wildlife and clean water, and safe
walking areas in our neighborhoods.
Her favorite past-time activities are
reading the dictionary, herb gardening, and rock collecting.
She is the mother of five; grandmother of nine, and resides
in Apple Valley
with three dogs and two cats.
