Emilee Dawn Whitehurst

The Rev. Emilee Dawn Whitehurst "is the Executive Director of The Rothko Chapel, a sacred space open to all people to advance interfaith understanding, human rights and justice based in Houston, Tx. She is the former director of the Austin Area Interreligious Ministries, Central Texas’ most comprehensive interfaith organization dedicated to uniting faith and cultural communities in service of the common good. Reverend Whitehurst is an ordained Presbyterian minister with a background in community organizing around issues of homelessness, police accountability and alternatives to incarceration. She has a BA with honors in Human Biology from Stanford University and holds a Masters of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in 2001 where she was a Williams Fellow awarded to the top ten students demonstrating promise in ministry. In addition, she completed coursework towards ordination at the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. A native Austinite, she has worked with non-profit organizations and congregations in California, Kansas, Massachusetts and Texas."