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Elizabeth Le’anani Coffee

Managing director, Lake Institute on Faith and Giving

Elizabeth Leanani Coffee is the managing director of the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Previously she served as the director of storytelling at the H.E. Butt Foundation in San Antonio, Texas, and as South Texas Regional Coordinator at the Baptist General Convention of Texas. She is a graduate of Abilene Christian Unversity and Indiana University Indianapolis. Coffee serves as an advisor to Leadership Education at Duke Divinity (now the Forum for Congregational Life.)

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