Lisa Garcia-Sampson

A head shot of Rev. Lisa Garcia-Sampson, a white woman with short brown hair parted on the left, wearing glasses with dark brown plastic frames, a dark blue knit shirt, and a medium grey suit jacket. She is smiling broadly while looking at the camera. Behind her, out of focus, we see green bushes and trees.

Since 2020, Rev. Lisa Garcia-Sampson (she/her) has served as the Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of North Carolina. She leads Blueprint North Carolina’s state-wide Faith Table and is particularly focused on the work of movement chaplaincy and community safety. Some of her volunteer roles in Unitarian Universalism include serving on the UU Funding Program’s Fund for a Just Society Panel, and on the Board of Directors for the Church of the Larger Fellowship.

Rev. Lisa’s first and always spiritual home is the First Unitarian Church of Providence (Rhode Island), where she became a UU in 2012 and was ordained in 2020. She graduated from Boston University’s School of Theology in 2018 and served as the Ministerial Intern for First Church Boston in 2019. Currently, she is proud to be an Affiliated Community Minister for the Community Church of Chapel Hill UU.

Rev. Lisa loves gardening, observing Sabbath, listening to bluegrass music, and studying the parallels between sports and religion in our culture. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, residing on Lumbee and Shakori indigenous land.