The Rev. Leah Wise

The Rev. Leah Wise serves as Priest for the Hill, the southeast campus of Good Shepherd. At the Hill, she provides pastoral, formational, and liturgical leadership in a multicultural setting with a growing Deaf community. She is also the chaplain for Hillside Early Childhood Center. Across both campuses, she helps support outreach programs and assists in worship services and programs. You might even find her singing in the choir.

Having grown up in Indiana and Florida, Leah earned her B.A. in Religion from Florida State University and her M.Div. from Yale Divinity School, with a decade in between spent as a barista, sustainability writer, and charity shop manager in Charlottesville, Virginia. She was ordained in the Diocese of Virginia and began her ministry in the Diocese of Texas after completing seminary.
In her ministry, Leah particularly enjoys cultivating community across difference and empowering laypeople to fully embody their faith through accessible and joyful Christian education, worship, and fellowship.

Outside of the parish, Leah enjoys singing, taking nature walks, watching movies, reading science fiction, writing poetry, and hunting for treasures at thrift stores with her husband, Daniel. She has two cats, Sebastian and Wednesday.

Contact Leah here.