A member of First Baptist Church in Ithaca, NY, Rev. Dixon-Garrard serves as a chaplain at Guthrie Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, NY, and has been a pastor and church planter (Community of Grace of the Southern Tier). Rev. Alicia’s life verse, Jeremiah 29:11, provides the foundation for her calling to a ministry that nurtures, sustains, and cultivates wholeness through advocacy for racial and ethnic justice, family peace, and promotion of mental wellness.