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Alexis Lillie
Minister, The Church of the Village
The Rev. Alexis Lillie is the minister for leadership and congregational development at The Church of the Village in New York City. She is “passionate about viewing the subversive life of Jesus as a blueprint for the systems-inverting work of justice today.”
Lillie graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 2014 with a master of divinity degree and is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She has served as a minister in several capacities in church, university and nonprofit settings.
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