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Reverend Yvette R. Blair
Pastor. Public Theologian.
Food Justice Activist.
Let's connect: Yvette@yvetteblair.com
At the Intersection of Faith and Food Justice
The Y is Not Silent
Reverend Yvette (pronounced “why”-vette) R. Blair serves as the Senior Pastor of First Christian Methodist Church in the Red Bird area of Dallas. A licensed pastor and ordained elder in The Methodist Church, she is the first woman to serve as senior pastor at this church.
A womanist public theologian, she is a candidate for the Doctor of Ministry at Memphis Theological Seminary, with an expected graduation date of May 2022. Her work focuses on the intersection of food insecurity, famines, displacement, and gentrification of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples. Her doctoral research project is “Reframing the Narrative of Food Insecurity: Creating a Faith-Based Policy that Addresses Food Apartheid in the Red Bird Community of Dallas.”
She has presented her work on the systemic injustices of food insecurity at national conferences including the Political Theology Network conference at Union Theological Seminary in New York, Bread For the World, and the Leadership Academy at Vanderbilt Divinity School.
An award-winning writer, Rev. Blair-Lavallais is a Public Voices Fellow of The Op Ed Project, a 2018-2020 fellow of Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative cohort, and a 2017 academic fellow of Princeton Theological Seminary’s prestigious Black Theology and Leadership Institute. She is also a 2013 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, where she served as president of the student body.
Rev. Yvette R. Blair is a native of Dallas, Texas, holds a BA in Journalism from the University of North Texas. She and her husband, the Rev. Carl Lavallais, live in Dallas.
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Let's connect: Yvette@yvetteblair.com
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