Kris currently serves as Associate Professor of Missional Leadership and Director of Innovative Initiatives at Wartburg Theological Seminary, where she has been since 2007. She loves how the creativity involved with her administrative work intersects with the teaching in the classroom. Kris received her PhD in Congregational Mission and Leadership from Luther Seminary, with a dissertation titled, “Feminist Theology and Missional Church: An Exploration into the Doctrine of the Trinity and its Understanding in Four Denominational Systems.” Kris and her husband Alan live in Dubuque Iowa with their children.