Betzy is an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church and has been under appointment since July 2009, pastoring local churches in the Holston Conference (East Tennessee and southwest Virginia) for 8 years before starting at EIU Wesley Foundation in September 2017. Earlier in her life, Betzy did some time at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa (B.A.); the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (M.A.); and the Divinity School at Duke University (M.Div.). She loves asking lots of questions, learning and growing with students and church members, and reading, writing, and playing the piano and French horn. Betzy is also an adjunct faculty member in the EIU English department, teaching English 1002 whenever they need her to. Perhaps most importantly, she is wife to Brock, mom to Benjamin and Brendan, and beloved human to Daphne and Dot. Smokey the cat tolerates her and the rest of the family (and thinks wistfully of that brief time in 2020 when there were no dogs in the house).