Elizabeth Le'anani Coffee is the South Texas Regional Coordinator at the Baptist General Convention of Texas. She has worked with the convention since 2011 and in 2015 transitioned to San Antonio to encourage collaboration among 11 Baptist institutions, developing relationships with innovative, emerging Christian leaders across the state and designing new leadership development initiatives in the Rio Grande Valley. She is a graduate of Abilene Christian Unversity and a member of the Board of Advocates at Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University. Coffee serves on the Advisory Council of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.