Rev. Darcy Metcalfe

Rev. Dr. Darcy Metcalfe is the 2016 Nancy A. Hardesty Memorial Scholarship recipient and the winner of the 2021 D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize in the Humanities and Fine Arts division for her dissertation titled, "Ethics of the Inheritable Genetic Modification of Human Embryos via CRISPR Technology." which addresses the timely and timeless intersection between healthcare, race, and gender in the United States. Metcalfe has served as a PC(USA) minister and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Findlay in Ohio. For several years, Darcy served on the Advocacy Committee for Women’s Concern’s for the PC(USA), which is a gender justice research group, and a Child and Youth Task Force drafting a national child/youth/vulnerable adult protection policy for the PC(USA). Darcy served as an advocate with the NGO Ecumenical Women at the United Nations 59th Commission on the Status of Women. The absolute joy of Darcy’s life is her young son Coltrane, who much to her delight is already a Reinhold Niebuhr fan.