President and CEO, The Conference of Churches
Best champions the business of spiritualityRev.
Shelley Best is an ordained minister in the AME Zion church who has
transformed her focus from the purely spiritual to the business of
spirituality as president and CEO of The Conference of Churches, a
faith-based nonprofit in Hartford.
Best, 51, has brought a sense
of entrepreneurship and business savvy to her organization that was on
display in 2012, when she brokered a deal to purchase the Hartford
Courant Arts Center on Farmington Avenue, which had previously stood
vacant for about a decade. The building was purchased from Aetna with
the help of a $500,000 grant from the state of Connecticut.
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