ABOUT ELIZABETH
Rev. Elizabeth Ashman Riley is an Episcopal priest serving in the Diocese of Olympia. She is the former rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Mercer Island. She was called there as their first female rector at the age of thirty. Elizabeth was ordained through the Diocese of Alaska as a deacon in 2012 and as a priest in 2013.
She was born in Wasilla, Alaska and spent most of her formative years in Anchorage. She found the Episcopal Church in middle school and felt her calling to the priesthood at fifteen. She moved to the Bay Area to attend college at Saint Mary’s College of California, where she studied theology and English. After receiving her BA, she attended seminary at Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, where she received a Master of Divinity. She served as a deacon at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in San Francisco. For five years she served as the Associate Rector at Trinity Church in Menlo Park, California.
Elizabeth previously served as a board member of Young Clergy Women International, and on the board of Stanford's Episcopal Campus Ministry.
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Elizabeth is passionate about good netflix binges, quilting, millennial pop cultural, and rage praying on TikTok.