Miguel Escobar
Miguel A. Escobar is Executive Director of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary (EDS at Union). There, he works with the Very Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of EDS at Union, to build a Master of Divinity in Anglican Studies program aimed at forming social-justice faith leaders for The Episcopal Church. Previously, Escobar served as managing program director for leadership, communications, and external affairs at the Episcopal Church Foundation. He earned a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in 2007 and served as the communications assistant to then-Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori from 2007 to 2010. Escobar is chair of the board of directors of Forward Movement and serves as secretary of the board of directors of Episcopal Relief & Development. He grew up in the Texas Hill Country and attended Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas, where he studied the Roman Catholic social-justice tradition, Latin American liberation theologies, and minored in Spanish. He joined the Episcopal Church in New York City through St. Mary’s in West Harlem, drawn by the congregation’s diversity and commitment to social justice. Escobar divides his time between two parishes–All Saints in Park Slope and San Andres in Sunset Park, Brooklyn..
