Liz Walker
Liz Walker is an ordained minister, an award winning television news journalist, a documentary film producer and a human rights activist/humanitarian currently working in the Sudan, scene of the 21st century’s first genocide.
A 2005 graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, Reverend Walker first traveled to Sudan in the summer of 2001 with Reverend Dr. Gloria White Hammond (MDiv ‘97) to investigate a controversial slave trade that was a part of that country’s twenty one year civil war. Outraged by what they saw, Reverend Walker and Reverend White-Hammond co-founded MY SISTER'S KEEPER, a humanitarian group currently building a girl's school in the village of Akon, South Sudan. Reverend Walker who shot much of her own footage in Sudan, has produced a documentary profiling Reverend White-Hammond called A GLORY FROM THE GOD.
Reverend Walker, a former Emmy award winning television news anchor on WBZ TV, is co-founder of the Jane Doe Safety Fund, a multi-million dollar project to support domestic abuse shelters and safe houses around the Commonwealth. She serves on a number of foundations and boards including the Board of Overseers for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Board of the Tufts Health Foundation, the Board of Trustees for Andover Newton Theological Institute and the advisory board for the New England Chapter of the United Nation's International Children's Education Fund.