Associate Director of Development
As associate director of development, Jeff Compton-Nelson works with the Chapel's leadership and National Advisory Board to set and reach its fundraising goals. He has served in different capacities at Duke for over a decade, in Student Affairs and at the Divinity School. During that time, he helped establish Duke’s first residential interfaith space (The Mosaic) and living-learning community (Eruditio et Religio) and spearhead Duke Divinity School's forthcoming Certificate in Chaplaincy. From 2017 to 2023, he also served on the Chapel's National Advisory Board.
Compton-Nelson has a bachelor of arts in theology and psychology from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego and a master of divinity and certificate in gender studies from Duke Divinity School. He is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene and attends Church of the Holy Family Episcopal Church in Chapel Hill with his wife, the Rev. Angela Compton-Nelson, and two daughters.