Daisy L. Machado was born in Cuba and migrated to the U.S. with her parents when she was 3 years old. She was raised in NYC where she earned her B.A. (Brooklyn College), her MSW (Hunter College School of Social Work, and her M.Div. (Union Theological Seminary). She is an ordained minister and has served inner city congregations in Brooklyn and Manhattan, NY, Houston, TX, Fort Worth, TX. Her experience of living in the Texas borderlands led her to pursue and complete a PhD in Modern Church History at the University of Chicago where Dr. Martin Marty was her dissertation advisor. She has taught in seminaries in Texas, Kentucky and currently in NYC. She has also served as the first Latina dean at Lexington Theological Seminary (KY) and at Union Theological Seminary. She was the first director of the Hispanic Theological Initiative and is currently the director of the Hispanic Summer Program.

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