Noya Woodrich, an Athabascan woman, has been tapped to run the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches, the largest group of its kind in North America.

Woodrich is the first woman and the first Native American person to lead the group. She previously served as the council's senior vice president and executive director of the Division of Indian Work.

“I am very excited and honored to be selected to continue to grow with the organization that I have spent my career at, one with a strong foundation and history of accomplishments. I am looking forward to the challenge of continuing to build on our legacy of service to this community," Woodrich said in a press release.

The GMCC has 700 member congregations.

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