Prior to changing her career as a biblical scholar, she worked as a chief information officer in the aerospace industry at General Electric. She received several awards from the aerospace industry including from the American Jewish Committee/Shalom Hartman Institute, the Kern Foundation, the Wabash Institute, Duke University, the Fund for Theological Education, the National Institutes of Science/Ford Foundation, the Lockheed Martin President's Award, and the GE Aerospace General Manager's Award.[3]
She completed her Master of Divinity at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1999 and her Ph.D. at Duke University in 2006. She has taught in both schools at the graduate level. She joined Fuller Theological Seminary in 2006 where she continued her teaching and scholarship on the New Testament.[5] Since July 1, 2018, she has been the Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Columbia Theological Seminary.[6]
Sechrest, Love L. (2009). A Former Jew: Paul and the dialectics of race. The Library of New Testament Studies. Vol. 410. London; New York: T&T Clark. ISBN9780567462749. OCLC310401973.
——— (2018). Can White People Be Saved?: triangulating race, theology. Downer's Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN9780830851041. OCLC1032571865.