The Reverend Adriene Thorne is the eighth senior minister of the historic Riverside Church in the City of New York and the first African American woman to hold the position. Prior to leading Riverside, Rev. Thorne served The First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn for six years where she cofounded the award winning Brooklyn Heights Community Fridge and where the community named her one of the Top Ten Most Impactful People. After seminary, Rev. Thorne spent eight years at Middle Collegiate Church in a variety of ministerial roles, concluding her service there as the Executive Minister. Rev. Thorne is a healer, Presbyterian minister, and classically trained dancer who uses movement to heal bodies in the church and community. She has been a dancing theologian for over twenty years and is the originator of Embodied Pastoring.