Director of Special Initiatives
As director of special Initiatives, the Rev. Leah Torrey is responsible for the design and implementation of programs that center storytelling and wrestling with questions that ask members of the Duke community: who have you been, who are you now, who do you hope to be?
Rev. Torrey joined the Chapel after many years of working at Dartmouth College as the assistant director of social impact leadership at the Dartmouth Center for Social Impact, and before that as the multi-faith advisor at the Dartmouth Tucker Center for Spiritual and Ethical Living. Prior to working in higher education, she was a community organizer and worked for close to a decade on creating systemic change and building grassroots power in poor and rural communities. She earned a master of divinity from Harvard Divinity School and a bachelor of arts from Oberlin College. She is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church, and often finds herself called into working in liminal spaces and in roles of accompaniment.