Karen Hernández-Granzen

Pastor

Rev. Karen Hernández-Granzen has passionately served as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church of Trenton, New Jersey, for over twenty-eight years. She helped create together with Westminster and Nassau Presbyterian Churches the Trenton Microloan Collaborative, an initiative serving returning citizens/formerly incarcerated. As a former member of the City of Trenton’s Latino Advisory Council, she has been seeking to improve the quality of their public school education. As a former commissioner of the City of Princeton’s Civil Rights Commission, she sort to ensure that issues negatively impacting residents were addressed. In 2017, she was chosen as the inaugural Community Partner-in-Residence of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, at Princeton University, to strengthen the intersection of the wider campus and community. Her other community engagements include serving as co-chair of United Mercer Interfaith Organization, chaplain of the Bethany House of Hospitality: An Intentional Young Adult Community, and as aboard member of the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund. She contributed chapters to the following books: Intercultural Ministry: Hope in a Changing World, about Westminster’s radical transformation into an intercultural worshiping community, and Faith of Our Mothers, Living Still, about her ordination journey to become a Minister of Word and Sacrament (or Teaching Elder). She was a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) delegate to the Jubilee World Council of Churches in 1998, in Zimbabwe, and in2018 the PCUSA awarded her the Women of Faith Award. She is married to the Rev. Dr. Michael Granzen, and the mother of Mikaella and Olivia.