Elizabeth HernandezElizabeth Hernandez is the co-founder and first executive director of the Place of Refuge. In 2010, she was awarded the Orlando E. Costas Community Service Award in recognition of her nearly thirty years of work offering hope and healing for Philadelhia's underserved people. She was educated in her native New York and completed her doctoral degree at Westminster Theological Seminary in urban studies focusing on a contextual counseling model for the urban people.

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