Lisa Levy

Community Care Minister

Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Lisa came to Connecticut to attend Yale Divinity School, from which she graduated in 2012. During her time at YDS, she frequently worshiped at Chapel on the Green, a community where she found refuge, inspiration, and a deep sense of connection to God. When she started work at Trinity as the Outreach Coordinator in 2022, she felt as if she were coming home. She initially split her time between Trinity and Loaves & Fishes, an organization that has been offering food, clothing, and community to New Haven residents for over forty years. In 2024, Lisa became Trinity’s Community Care Minister. In this new role, she continues to coordinate Chapel on the Green and provide pastoral care to those parishioners while also providing pastoral care and support to the part of the Trinity community that worships primarily indoors. Lisa dreams of a day when the outdoor and indoor worshiping communities are more fully interwoven into the fabric of one community.

Lisa has served as a chaplain at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Westchester Division, and Yale-New Haven Hospital. She also worked for several years as the Spiritual Support Coordinator at a large homeless services agency in downtown Houston, where she acted as a chaplain to the clients, served as the liaison to the agency’s Council of Congregations, and coordinated Coming Home, a restorative community program that brought together housed and unhoused people for a weekly common meal, a therapeutic support group, and one-on-one mentorship.

Lisa is a graduate of Amherst College (BA English Literature), Syracuse University’s Creative Writing Program (MFA in Fiction), and Yale Divinity School (MDiv).

Autumn is her favorite season, and Lisa enjoys traveling to beautiful parts of New England to go leaf-peeping. When not at work, Lisa likes to read, write, spend quality time with close friends, watch baseball and MMA (mixed martial arts), and love on her two rescue dogs, Wade and Wanda.