Rev. Brita L. Gill-Austern, MDiv, PhD, is the Austin Philip Guiles professor of psychology and pastoral theology at Andover Newton Theological School (ANTS). She is faculty directo...view moreRev. Brita L. Gill-Austern, MDiv, PhD, is the Austin Philip Guiles professor of psychology and pastoral theology at Andover Newton Theological School (ANTS). She is faculty director of Border-Crossing Immersions and has led border-crossing trips to Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the Mexico-US border. She is committed to interfaith dialogue and work between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. She is a founding member of the Interreligious Center for public policy. As a board member of Communities Without Borders, she is active in work to stop the spread of global AIDS and to educate AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children in Zambia and India, to ensure a more hopeful future for them and our world. She has also led a dual narrative immersion to Israel/Palestine and is designing one in the US criminal justice system. She is an ordained United Church of Christ pastor and served in three parishes in Pennsylvania and California for eight years before joining the faculty at ANTS in 1988. In a coedited volume, Feminist and Womanist Pastoral Theology, she and Bonnie Miller McLemore lift up the contributions of feminism and womanism to the discipline of pastoral theology. She has contributed many articles and chapters to the field of pastoral theology.view less