Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi is assistant professor of leadership and formation and faculty director of the Office of Professional Formation at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, where she also co-directs the Doctor of Ministry in Prophetic Leadership and coordinates the Certificate in Latinx Studies for the Iliff/University of Denver Joint PhD in the Study of Religion. Lizardy-Hajbi teaches, writes, and engages in public leadership as a scholar of leadership, congregational community formation and change, contextual education, and applied research methods. She is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.