Trustee

Diana Davies

Board Member, Chair of Education Team and Nominating Committee

Rev. Davies, MDiv '17, is the lead minister at the First Unitarian Church of Oklahoma City, OK.

Rev. Davies is the lead minister at the First Unitarian Church of Oklahoma City, OK, and has been serving there since 2018. Rev. Davies holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Rochester with concentrations in Russian and Spanish. She served as Director of International Programs at the University of Iowa from 2000-2008, and as Vice Provost for International Initiatives at Princeton University from 2008-2014, before entering Meadville Lombard. She is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory and serves on the Board of the Interfaith Alliance of Oklahoma. She also serves on the Finance Committee of the UUSC.

She is married to Jim Reilly and is a registered yoga teacher and avid organic gardener.

What did MLTS education give you as a tool to take your ministry where you want it to go?

“Meadville Lombard education helped me take what I had learned from my former career that I could apply in a very specific cross-cultural situation and extend it to certainly how I would be in my ministry at congregations, but more in general in my life. Much greater, deeper understanding of the importance of taking time to build relationships, and the importance of process, as much as or more important than the outcome.”