LEAD 2022 Speaker: Laura Patterson

LEAD 2022 Speaker: Laura Patterson

Laura is an Elder in the North Georgia Conference of the UMC serving the amazing justice-seeking congregation at Oconee Street. A repatriated Southerner contending with her own history, she is focused on the intersection of discipleship and justice as the fullest...
LEAD 2022 Speaker: Krystal Woolston

LEAD 2022 Speaker: Krystal Woolston

Krystal Woolston is the Assistant Director of the Center for Community Engagement at Montclair State University where she directs the Bonner Leader program, co-coordinates the Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellows program and the Orange Community...
LEAD 2022 Speaker: Hillary Taylor

LEAD 2022 Speaker: Hillary Taylor

Hillary Taylor is a resident chaplain at Prisma Health Hospital in Greenville, SC. A graduate of Furman University and Candler School of Theology, she is an ordained elder in the South Carolina United Methodist Conference. Hillary has also served as a young adult...
LEAD 2022 Speaker: Gabe Rangel

LEAD 2022 Speaker: Gabe Rangel

Gabe serves at FUMC Decatur outside of Ft Worth Texas. He went from a single bachelor youth director to a husband and dad of 4, later adding a niece. He has served in small towns or 6,000 to San Antonio to now a town projected to explode as the D/FW area expands. As...
LEAD 2022 Speaker: Dana Neuhauser

LEAD 2022 Speaker: Dana Neuhauser

Dana Neuhauser [she, her hers] is an ordained deacon. She likes to think of deacon as shorthand for justice-seeking, peace-making, disciple-equipping follower of Jesus. She has a heart for racial, economic, and environmental justice and seeks to invite and equip...
LEAD 2022 Speaker: Chelsea Peddecord

LEAD 2022 Speaker: Chelsea Peddecord

Rev. Chelsea Peddecord is a Texas native, serving at Highland Park United Methodist Church as a Youth Pastor and commissioned Deacon. After graduating from Oklahoma State with her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with an emphasis on Social Services, she finished her...