
Latinas in Leadership Facilitators/Panelists


VictorAloyo Jr.
President, Columbia Theological Seminary

Nancy "Rusty" Barceló
Consultant for Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education

Aixa Beauchamp
Independent Nonprofit Consultant

Margarita Benítez
Former Executive Director of Fundación Puertorriqueña de. las Humanidades

Chris Cavanaugh
President and Certified Executive Coach for Pathseekers II, Inc.

Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
Executive Director, Retired; Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana, Independent Scholar, Mentor and Practical Theologian

Timothy I. Frazier
Financial Services Consultant

Doris García Rivera
Professor of Old Testament and Mission and Evangelism in the Certificate in Hispanic Ministries, Lexington Theological Seminary

Debbie Gin
Director of Research and Faculty Development, The Association of Theological Schools

Michelle González
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Scranton

Amy Kardash
President of the In Trust Center for Theological Schools

Nora Lozano
Executive Director, Christian Latina Leadership Institute

Loida Martell
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean Professor of Constructive Theology Lexington Theological Seminary

Mirta M. Martin
President, Ferrum College

Shannon McCambridge
Executive Search Consultant, AGB Search

Milagros Peña
President, Purchase College SUNY

Ahida Pilarski
Professor of Old Testament and Chair of the Theology Department at Saint Anselm College

Joanne Rodríguez
Executive Director, Hispanic Theological Initiative

Joanne Solis-Walker
Associate dean and Professor in the Practice of Leadership at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology

Yvonne Martínez Thorne
Founder and CEO of Cultivating Wholeness Counseling Associates

Alexandra Zareth
Board Certified Chaplain and Program Strategist for a Mujeres en Victoria

Latinas in Leadership Sages


Teresa Delgado
Dean of St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John’s University, NY

Doris García Rivera
Professor of Old Testament and Mission and Evangelism in the Certificate in Hispanic Ministries, Lexington Theological Seminary

Jacqueline Hidalgo
Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego

Nora Lozano
Executive Director and Co-founder, Christian Latina Leadership Institute

Loida Martell
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean Professor of Constructive Theology Lexington Theological Seminary

Ahida Pilarski
Professor of Old Testament and Chair of the Theology Department at Saint Anselm College

Joanne Solis-Walker
Associate dean and Professor in the Practice of Leadership at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology

Latinas in Leadership Participants


Xochitl Alvizo
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge

Wendy Arce
Senior Fellowship Officer at the Division of Graduate Education, University of California Los Angeles

Ruth Aimée Belonni-Rosario Govens
Self-Employed

Rebecca Berru Davis
Assistant Professor in Theology, St. Catherine University

María M. Carrión
Professor of Religion and Comparative Literature. Chair, Department of Religion, Emory University

María Soco Castañeda
Chief Education Officer, Becoming Mujeres: Translating Cultural Expectations into Opportunities

Melissa Pagán
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Religious Studies, Mount Saint Mary's University