Samantha is the Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Wartburg Theological Seminary. She previously taught homiletics at the General Theological Seminary (New York, NY) and speech communication in ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton, NJ). She holds a Ph.D. in Practical Theology focusing on Homiletics, an M.Div., and an M.A. in Christian Education focusing on Spirituality and Missional Formation from Princeton Theological Seminary.

As a Designated Linklater Teacher (certification in an internationally recognized embodied voice method, read more here), Samantha taught voice and speech at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, and the Tom Todoroff Studio (New York, NY). She is integrating this expertise as a practical theologian to develop practices for preachers to become fully present, connected, and receptive to God and people, and to help them foster their embodied voices for proclamation that corresponds to the freedom and abundance of the gospel.

In her spare time, Samantha enjoys the sounds and smells of rain, backyard birding, yoga, cooking and eating new recipes, scouting out the best coffee shops in town, and taking lazy walks along the Mississippi.