Welcome to the Living Library, a partnership between the YWCA Gettysburg & Adams County and the Adams County Library System!  We have gathered human "books" to be checked out by readers for 30-minute conversations during the week.  Please use the form below to register to listen to Carla's story.

Carla Christopher grew up taking etiquette lessons in the south before living in gangland Detroit and then heading to college at an Ivy League in Manhattan. A caseworker and educator, Carla did stints as York's Poet Laureate and a national Diversity and Cultural Competency Trainer before becoming a Lutheran Pastor who currently serves as Assistant to the Bishop of Lower Susquehanna (Central PA) and Delaware- Maryland while also pastoring a United Church of Christ Open and Affirming Congregation in York.

Book Title:  The One-Stop Diversity Shop; Story of a Black, Jewish, Lesbian Lutheran Pastor-Activist

Book Synopsis:
Intersectionality is a frequent buzzword in conversations about diversity but what does it really feel like to belong everywhere and no place in particular at the same time? Jewish-Romani-English-Spanish-Black lesbian, Carla Christopher, used storytelling to make the world her home and family and uses poetry and preaching to connect our shared history and create collective victory.