Boston University School of Theology with a Rockefeller Fellowship. She also holds an M.Div. from SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Detroit, served as Vice-Moderator of Metropolitan Community Church during 1993-2003 and has pastored Metropolitan Community Church congregations in Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, and California. She is the former senior pastor of Metropolitan Community Church of Los Angeles, the founding church of the Metropolitan Community Churches international movement. She most recently served as senior pastor of Church of the Trinity MCC in Sarasota, Florida. In 1976 she became the youngest person ever to be elected a member of the Metropolitan Community Church Board of Elders. Local Church Pastoral Service: 2001–2005, Senior Pastor, Church of the Trinity MCC, Sarasota, Florida; 1986–2000, Senior Pastor, MCC Los Angeles, Mother Church of MCC; 1975–1979, Senior Pastor, MCC Detroit; 1974–1975, Senior Pastor, MCC Boston, Worcester, Massachusetts; 1972–1974, Associate Pastor, MCC Boston, Worcester, Massachusetts Ecumenical and human rights work Wilson has a deep commitment to ecumenical work and human rights. During 1979–1999, she served as MCC's Chief Ecumenical Officer, representing Metropolitan Community Church at the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches. She has also been active on behalf of HIV issues, prisoner treatment programs, and women's rights. She is the founder of the MCC Conference for Women in Professional Ministry. In 1979, she participated in the first-ever meeting of gay and lesbian religious leaders at the White House with President Jimmy Carter. On April 6, 2010, she was guest of President Barack Obama at the White House Easter Prayer Breakfast. On February 4, 2011, Wilson was appointed by President Obama to the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships for a one-year term. Public speaking Wilson was the Guest Preacher at the Earl Lectures at Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley, California, January 2002) and has been a guest speaker at Harvard Divinity School, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Allegheny College, Claremont School of Theology, and the University of Southern California. Writings Wilson is the author of: Our Tribe: Queer Folks, God, Jesus, and the Bible (1995 Harpercollins Press) Amazing Grace co-editor with Fr. Malcolm Boyd Contributing author to Poems and Prayers in Race and Prayer edited by Malcolm Boyd and Chester Talton (Morehouse Press). Contributing author to "The MisEducation Against Homosexuality In The Bible: "How The Church Got It Wrong!" (2010 New Points of View Publishing) "Outing the Church: 40 Years in the Queer