Rev. Dr. Leon Burrows

Leon T. Burrows is the Protestant Chaplain to Smith College and the Protestant Religious Advisor to Amherst College. Dr. Burrows is the Preaching Minister for the Interdenominational Protestant Community that meets for Sunday chapel service at Smith College's, Helen Hills Hills Chapel, at 10:30 a.m. during the college year. He is the Coordinator of the Amherst College's, Hermeniah T. Gardner Bi-Semester Christian Worship Series held in Chapin Chapel. Dr. Burrows is also a published author with a contributing chapter, "Dancing on the Edge" in Transforming Campus Life: Reflections on Spirituality & Religious Pluralism – Vachel W. Miller and Merle M. Ryan (Eds.), N.Y.: Peter Lang Publisher.

The Rev. Dr. Burrows holds music degrees in organ performance and church music, from the University of Hartford, Hartt School of Music and the Yale University, School of Music, a Master of Divinity from the Yale Divinity School as well as a Master's Diploma from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts. The Rev. Dr. Burrows earned the Doctor of Ministry degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
Prior to assuming his current positions at Smith and Amherst Colleges, he was a pastor, for eight years, of an American Baptist Church in Philadelphia, PA. He also was an Adjunct Professor at Geneva College's, Center for Urban Theological Studies in Philadelphia, PA.