Heather Lefkowitz

Heather Lefkowitz previously served as administrative manager of the Curb Center from 2003 until 2008, when she entered Vanderbilt Divinity School. She graduated with a Masters of Divinity degree in May, 2011, and was the recipient of the Nella May Overby Memorial Award for Field Education.Her master’s project was an examination of creative pastoral responses to Nashville’s 2010 historic flooding. While in graduate school, Heather served as a chaplain intern at Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt; as a crisis counselor at Family and Children’s Service; and as coordinator of ministry to families at East End United Methodist Church. Prior to her time at Vanderbilt, she managed research centers and fellowship programs at the University of Virginia, served as an elementary educator in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, and worked part-time as an event planner and caterer. Originally from South Carolina, she received her Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt in 1990. She is married to Paul Lefkowitz, Director of Family Assistance Policy at the Department of Human Services, and is the mother of Charlotte.

Email: heather.lefkowitz@vanderbilt.edu