The Center for Reconciliation will host a conversation series event featuring Rev. Breana van Velzen, the executive director of Durham Congregations in Action (DCIA).

DCIA is a cooperative, multi-faith network offering care and support for the most vulnerable and forgotten in our community, and planting seeds in new initiatives to change lives in Durham. This presentation will share how collaboration, advocacy, education, and collective action tie together with ministry and how grassroots community collaboration leads to change.

The Rev. Breana van Velzen is an ordained Baptist minister. She holds a master of divinity degree from Duke Divinity School and a master of social work from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Breana is a certified spiritual director and a non-profit consultant and serves on the board of Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity. She is part of Baptist Women in Ministry N.C. and the Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham (RCND).