Rev. Lisa Dunson hails from Lexington, Ky. She attended Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Ky and received her Master of Divinity from The Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology in Richmond, Virginia.  Rev. Dunson is the President of the Alliance of Baptist Board of Directors, is co-chair of the UCC African American Women in Ministry (AAWIM) Global Engagement Committee, serves on the UCC Executive Committee for the AAWIM Potomac Association Sister Circle, is the liaison to the United Congregational Churches of Southern Africa’s Women at the Well Ministry and is a member of the ministerial team at Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, in Washington, DC. 

Reverend Lisa believes part of her calling is to speak life and light into the dark places we often find ourselves. She embraces and is thankful for all the challenges she has faced and offers her life as a testimony to the goodness, the grace, the mercy and loving forgiveness of the one God who loves all of us unconditionally.