Women were as central to Jesus’ ministry as men, says a top female LDS leader

Tracy Browning, the first Black woman to join a churchwide presidency, told a packed New York City audience that women “chose to walk with him.”

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Tracy Y. Browning of the Primary General Presidency speaks at the “Onward, Ever Onward” United States Northeast Area Women’s Conference on May 30, 2026