Rev. Dr. Yolanda Denson-Byers

Rev. Dr. Yolanda Denson-Byers is a senior pastor of an ELCA church in Minneapolis. She has been a pastor and hospice chaplain for the last twenty-eight years and is the author of the book, See Me, Believe Me: A Guide to Deepen Allyship with Congregational Leaders of Color. She hails from Saint Louis, Missouri. She has degrees from Wesleyan University (B.A.), Harvard University (M.Div.), and Luther Seminary (D.Min.). In her spare time she loves to spend time with her spouse and children on any beach along the Atlantic Ocean.