Alumni Profile: Lt. Colonel Amy Glatz

December 4, 2022

For six years, part-time student Amy Glatz drove the 70-minute round trip to NBTS to earn her Master of Divinity degree while working full-time and raising children. Was the investment worth it? Amy’s answer would be a solid yes: “My NBTS education made me a better soldier, a better officer,
a better leader.” 

Lt. Colonel Glatz has had many opportunities to apply her seminary learnings in her military career: she exercised pastoral care in resilience training and suicide intervention; she worked for justice as the New Jersey National Guard’s Sexual Assault Response Coordinator; and she elevates diversity in her current role as the State Equal Employment Manager.

Amy is grateful for how her NBTS degree equipped her to care well for others: “NBTS helped me better understand the religious world and social justice issues. I was better equipped to approach soldiers and truly hear what they were experiencing.”  Amy’s NBTS education gave her a vision for how to partner with God and to embody God’s presence in the Army National Guard.