Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott

The Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott is the Coordinator of Interfaith Engagement for the DMARC Pantry Network in the Des Moines Metro Area, serving 17,500 individuals each month. DMARC is able to provide healthy food for all people regardless of income or address due to the support of a vast network of religious and non-religious support. Rev. Trone Garriott provides education on food insecurity, poverty, and interfaith issues, coordinating opportunities to build relationships across religious difference including an Interfaith Youth Leadership Camp for High School Students. Holding a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and a Master of Divinity from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Rev. Trone Garriott is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and previously served parishes in Rural Virginia and Suburban Des Moines. Winner of the 2008 Kenneth Echols Prize in Preaching, Rev. Trone Garriott's sermon "The Gospel of Resistance" was published in Preaching as Resistance, 2018, Chalice Press. Frequent contributor in Op-Ed, Radio, TV News. Board President of a Nursing Care and Senior Living Facility.

Sub-specialties: Hunger, Food Insecurity, Women in Religious Leadership, Interfaith, Christianity, Social Justice, Health Care, Consumer Protection (personal experience of almost buying a house contaminated with Methamphetamine)