BIO PARAGRAPH

Throughout her varied career, the Rev. Hilary Greer has worked with communities to cultivate a shared vision of the future and help make that vision a reality. Before entering seminary, Hilary managed national non-profits and programs that develop and fund community-based initiatives to transform local communities. Working with organizations ranging from worker-owned pizza cooperatives and micro-enterprise funds, to large-scale real estate developers and major banks, Hilary ultimately realized that authentic transformation comes from partnership with God. She left non-profit leadership to study and work full-time as an interfaith hospital chaplain. Hilary specialized in trauma chaplaincy, supporting patients and families facing life altering and terminal accidents and illnesses. After becoming a postulant for ordination in the Diocese of New York, Hilary entered seminary at the Episcopal Divinity School and found new ways to engage with God's mission for the world. She spent her summers working on projects in Rwanda focused on post-genocide reconciliation and healing, and in India studying the Dalit ("untouchable") movement and theologies of multiculturalism. Hilary also served as a transitional deacon at Grace Episcopal Church in Newton, Massachusetts – a vibrant parish in suburban Boston. She will be ordained to the priesthood at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York on September 10. Hilary is delighted to be welcomed among the open minds and open hearts of St. Mark's, a community that already loves God, cares for each other, and shares a passion for doing God's work in the world.