Chaplain Davíd Eli Patiño hails from Medellin, Colombia. Their scholarship and community work focuses on immigrant, queer and transgender experiences of faith and spirituality, postcolonial and decolonial ethics, and nonviolence.
They currently serves as the EcHouse Director and as an interfaith chaplain at Stanford Health Care. D. Eli is currently a postulant in the Episcopal Diocese of New York and holds a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. from Union Theological Seminary, and an M.Div. from Bexley-Seabury Seminary.
Are you a San Francisco State or City College student looking for pastoral care or to get involved with EcHouse? Reach out to D. Eli at chaplain@echousesf.com
Looking to partner with EcHouse? Connect with D. Eli at director@echousesf.com
Our Former Chaplain (2017-2022)
Chaplain Hannah was born and raised on a small island in Alaska. She studied History (late antiquity and early church history) at Northwestern College, Iowa and attended seminary at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley. Her academic interests are in interfaith studies, early church history, ecojustice, and disability ethics.
She is an Episcopal priest and was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2015. After serving two years as the pastor of an ecumenical congregation in Beijing, China and trying to learn Mandarin, she has returned to her San Francisco home where she loves sharing in the ministry at EcHouse and serves as vicar at St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church.
She holds a deep love for the outdoors, yoga, flyfishing, the SF Giants, and coffee.