This video, featuring Dr. Daisy Machado, is part of a series designed to provide course participants with a series of presentations about philanthropy, giving, and fundraising within the Latine and Hispanic communities.

Dr. Machado earned a BA from Brooklyn College, a MSW from the Hunter College School of Social Work, a M Div from Union Theological Seminary, and a PhD from the University of Chicago. She is professor emerita of American Religion History at Union Theological Seminary. She is the first Latina ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1981. She has been the executive director for almost 13 years. Guided by her leadership, HSP has broadened it’s network to include 39 seminaries and divinity schools across the U.S., as well as programming such as Summer Session, Pedagogy Workshop, and El Semillero: Executive Certificate in Religious Fundraising.

Dr. Machado has authored several book chapters and essays, including her latest essay “Santa Muerte: A Transgressing Saint Transgresses Borders” in an anthology that she co-edited titled Borderland Religion: Ambiguous Practices of Difference and Hope, published in 2019.

In this video, Dr. Machado shares “…a brief history of money in the context of early U.S. Christianity, particularly a context to understanding how the missionary enterprise Euro-American denominations carried out throughout the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South American influenced especially how Protestant Latines thought about money…” Jorge Juan Rodriguez V PhD, deputy executive director of Hispanic Scholars Program joins Dr. Machado in a conversation at the end.