Aleta Payne

Senior editor, Faith & Leadership

apayne@div.duke.edu

Aleta Payne joined Faith & Leadership in November 2019. Aleta’s role as senior editor combines her experience in newspaper and magazine journalism with her work at faith-based nonprofits, including the North Carolina Council of Churches and Johnson Service Corps. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia, holds a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke, and has completed a two-year program on Anglicanism and social justice through the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary. 

Aleta is a published poet, opinion writer and essayist. She is a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church where she serves as a lay Eucharistic minister and is active with several of the parish’s justice ministries.