The church is a recent participant, along with other Christian congregations in the Healing Committee training effort where church members learn many ways to be agents for healing to incarcerated citizens, their families and those returning to their communities after being incarcerated. Rev. Bennett has experience in facilitating conversations among people who often have legitimate, but competing interests, including developers and neighborhood residents; communities surrounding academic institutions and institutional representatives; and people of different religious traditions around issues of race and varying spiritual perspective.A planner by profession, Rev. Bennett is an administrator at Howard University, where she managed the University's latest campus master plan process.