Tags: alumni, students, theological school, theological school homepage

Teresita Matos-Post T’14,’23 on Drew School of Theology Female Religious Leadership DMin Cohort

“I experienced true belonging”

June 2022 – Teresita Matos-Post T’14,’23 earned her Master of Divinity in 2014 from Drew Theological Schooland came back to pursue her ministry doctor (DMin) with a specialization in female religious leadership.

The program is designed to deepen women’s considerable gifts for leadership, engaging women-centered theories, wisdom, and practices, as well as Drew’s long tradition of feminist, feminist, and LGBTQ theology and theory.

“I experienced true belonging,” Matos-Post said of the program. “It has been a safe space away from the male gaze to deepen theological research.

Matos-Post was a pastor of The United Methodist Church and is the executive director of Beth-El Farmworker Ministry in Florida, a nonprofit ministry servingThe farmworker community through opportunities for hunger relief, education, health care and spiritual growth.

She uses her DMin project to “build a network of Latino religious leaders who are called and share galvanized power to open avenues for contextual and relevant ministry to disenfranchised Latino communities.

“I am interested in the non-traditional ways in which Latino religious leadership emerges inside and outside of denominations – the ways in which we navigate hostility, microaggressions, racism and misogyny in the spaces whom we are called to lead.”