Milton Glider

I am Milton Gilder, and I look forward to joining Trinity Episcopal Church on the Branford Green as the Reimagine Church Facilitator this academic year, 2024-2025.

I am a third-year student at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, where I am completing an Anglican Diploma and Certificate in Black Church Studies. I am passionate about sustaining institutions and communities. While at Yale, I have been able to explore these passions by serving on various student boards and clubs, including but not limited to the Divinnovation Club, a faith and innovation club; Pennington Legacy Project, a group of students organizing at Yale for James Pennington to receive a posthumous degree to rewrite the wrongs of the past; the Yale Presidential Search Student Advisory Council; and the Yale Divinity Student Government. 

Before coming to Divinity School, I chiefly worked in various functions in education, youth development, and ministry. Immediately prior to Yale, I worked at Teachers Pay Teachers, an education technology company, working with internal stakeholders on sales and product marketing strategy. Before transitioning to education technology,  I  spent several years in secondary education and Christian youth leadership development. Last working at Duke Divinity School, I directed the Duke Youth Academy, a year-long ecumenical youth leadership and service learning program that expanded young people’s imagination and service in the church and beyond. I was the last Director and was responsible for facilitating its closure in my final year there. Previously, I launched a career and college readiness program at a Christian parachurch organization in Walltown, a predominantly black and brown neighborhood in Durham, North Carolina. 

I, too, went to Duke University and studied Public Policy, just like Rector, Fr. Tom at Trinty Branford. In addition to Public Policy, I studied International Studies, emphasizing Middle Eastern History and Politics. I later returned to Duke’s Program in Education as a Teaching Fellow, where I studied education pedagogy and policy and taught in Durham Public Schools.