HTI Faculty

Rev. Dr. Patrick B. Reyes is an award-winning and bestselling Chicano author. His first book, Nobody Cries When We Die, won a number of book awards, the most inspirational being the Hispanic Theological Initiative annual book prize. His second book, The Purpose Gap, was selected by the Council of Independent Colleges NetVUE as the Big Read for both 2022 and 2023, leading to its adoption and reading across higher education, including several institutions becoming “Purpose Gap” institutions. Reyes serves as the Dean of Auburn Theological Seminary, the first Latinxe or person of Indigenous descent to serve in the role.

He sits on several boards of institutions of theological and higher education. He currently serves on the board of directors of the American Academy of Religion, elected to the position of Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty board representative. He is the past president of the Religious Education Association, and a recent inductee into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College. He lives on ancestral lands in Santa Fe, NM, with his wife Carrie, and children Ash and Carmelita.