Hollering for Change: Conversation with Bishop LaTrelle Easterling

 

The Rev. Dr. Tori Butler (right) speaks with Bishop LaTrelle Easterling of the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware conferences in the fifth installment of the “Hollering for Change” series on women leaders and “firsts” in the denomination. Zoom video courtesy of the Rev. Butler, via YouTube.

Hollering for Change is the name of a series of commentaries by The Rev. Dr. Tori Butler for United Methodist News. Graphic by Laurens Glass, UM News. 

The Rev. Tori Butler speaks with Bishop LaTrelle Easterling of the Baltimore-Washington and Peninsula-Delaware conferences. Easterling talks about the influence of strong women leaders in her life like her mother and grandmother. “I didn’t need to find my voice so much because the women in my life have been so outspoken, never cowered,” she said.

This is the fifth in a series on women leaders and “firsts” in the denomination.

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