Liz Walker

Reverend Liz Walker - Moderator

Liz Walker is a minister, award winning journalist and activist for community healing and cross cultural and interfaith dialogue. Hers is a powerful voice of healing and hope. Rev Walker is currently Pastor of Roxbury Presbyterian Church, a dynamic faith community with a 130 plus year history of making a difference in one of Boston's most challenging neighborhoods. RPC under Reverend Walker's leadership is home to the Cory Johnson Trauma Project, an innovative program that addresses the epidemic of post-traumatic stress in a low income African American community too often overrun by violence. The Trauma Education Project works to increase community awareness of PTSD as well as improving access to mental health services, and empowering community members with the skills to cope with and respond to PTSD. Reverend Walker's calling as a minister is the latest and highest reach of a life journey which includes 11 years of humanitarian work in one of Africa's most troubled countries and 21 years as Boston's first African American Television News Anchor on WBZ TV.