Clergy, Musicians, and Vestry
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We call the ordained leadership responsible for worship and the building the priest-in-charge, who is also the “vicar,” running the church vicariously on behalf of the Bishop. The term comes from a word meaning “guide” or “governor,” or “ruler.” He facilitates worship, builds a vision, and teaches the faith.
The presidents, called “Wardens,” implement the vision, oversee the physical plant, and ensure the financial health of the church. It's not meant to imply church is like jail.
The board of directors, called the “Vestry,” is an elected body who serves as the board of directors. They implement the vision of the parish, with God's help.
The Rev. Dr. Gawain de Leeuw, OA
Vicar and Priest-in-Charge
Fr. Gawain (Gá wɪn di Lé u) arrived at Holy Trinity in September 2021 after serving 22 years in parishes in White Plains, NY. He was raised in Rochester, NY and was graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in Philosophy. He received his M.Div. from the University of Chicago and D. Min. from Seabury, an Episcopal seminary.
His academic interests include mimetic theory, institutional economics, and American Religious History. His book The Body of Christ in a Market Economy was published in 2019. He was ordained in 1996.
As a religious in the Order of the Ascension, his mission is to help build healthy and responsive communities through a commitment to hospitality and healing.
He is also a trained chef and sommelier. He cheers for the Bills and Tottenham. Introduce yourself and join him for a cup of coffee.
Rt Rev. Dr. Lynn Elizabeth Walker, SSB, FRSA
Associate
Mother Lynn lives in the neighborhood with her wife and three cats, and first attended Holy Trinity Church in 2023. She is a member of the Society of Saint Basil, and she teaches philosophy at a local college. She is retired from the Army Medical Department. Lynn has many years’ experience working with nonprofit agencies in New York City providing housing and support services for LGBTQIA+ youths and for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Her academic interests include ecclesial history, military history, medieval literature, and late Victorian crime literature. She is the author of Forward! Thoughts of a Trans Woman on the Christian Journey (Wipf and Stock 2024).
Lynn serves in the Orthodox-Catholic Church of America as Ecumenical Officer and as Bishop. She has served parishes in New Jersey, Western New York, and New York City.
Jason Gaboury
Associate
Jason Gaboury has served campus ministry in New York City for the last 25 years. He currently serves as Director of Alumni Relations with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. A lifelong Episcopalian, Jason has served on the Congregational Development Commission for the Diocese of New York and vestry of All Angels’ Church.
Jason is a member of the Anglican Order of Preachers, a religious community committed to prayer, community, study, and preaching. He is also an author, who’s first book; Wait With Me; Meeting God in Loneliness, came out in 2020.
Jason is a popular speaker, retreat leader, and leadership consultant. He and his wife and two college age daughters live in Washington Heights.
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Ian Trevethan
Postulant
Ian Trevethan is a postulant for ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of New York and a second year student at the General Theological Seminary. Ian grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and attended the University of Michigan where he studied Spanish and Vocal Performance. He moved to NYC in 2006 and became an elementary bilingual teacher in West Harlem. He has worked in public education since that time. Ian currently works as a Coach for EL Education, supporting schools to achieve more equitable achievement for all students. When he's not working or studying, you might find him running, baking, or doing yoga.
Annette A. Aguilar
Percussionist
Annette A. Aguilar is a multi-percussionist and bandleader who specializes in Latin percussion, as well as a recording artist, educator, and producer.
Born in San Francisco to Nicaraguan parents, she started playing drums in sixth grade.
By age sixteen, she was performing with notable artists from the Santana band, Pete and Sheila Escovedo (Sheila E.), and sitting in with Latin Jazz great Cal T. Jader. She studied classical music at San Francisco State University and earned master's degrees in music and music education from the Manhattan School of Music and Lehman College, respectively.
In 1992, Annette A. Aguilar formed her Latin Jazz, Brazilian, and Salsa group, Annette A. Aguilar & StringBeans, which became a popular part of New York City's East Village and Lower East Side music scenes. She was selected three times as a Latin Jazz Ambassador by the U.S. State Department, the Kennedy Center, and Jazz at Lincoln Center, touring countries in Africa to share music knowledge.
Aguilar runs her own label, Eagle Seek Salmon Records, and has produced four recordings: Special Friends, No Cheap Dates, The Day Waits for Nobody, and In The North: A Tribute to Northern Manhattan, the latter featuring mentorship from Afro-Cuban Jazz specialist Michele Rosewomen. She is also a recent recipient of Chamber Music America’s Performance Plus program, and Artistic project funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Aguilar has dedicated twenty years to nurturing young musicians in the South Bronx and Washington Heights and has taught at various institutions, including Jazz at Lincoln Center and Lehman College. A seasoned performer, she has shared the stage with artists such as Stevie Wonder, Darlene Love, Tito Puente, and The Grateful Dead.
In 2020, she joined Bronx Banda, directed by Arturo O’Farrill (multi-Grammy winner), recorded an album, and collaborated with the NY Philharmonic. Aguilar has also contributed to several Grammy Award-winning Broadway shows, including Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights.
Grace Han
Organist
At the age of 12, California born pianist Grace Han, made her orchestral debut at Colburn’s Zipper Hall performing the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor with the Torrance Symphony Orchestra. Among her awards are top prizes with the Korea Times Piano Competition, Southern California Bach Competition, Music Teacher’s Association of California Piano Solo and Concerto Competition, and recently, the Rondo Young Artist Piano Competition in New York City.
She has held solo performances in various venues in New York such as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, National Sawdust, and Rockwood Music Hall. Grace has been soloist, among many others, with the Torrance Symphony, New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, and Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra under Philippe Entremont. Most recently, she performed Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Symphony Space with the New Amsterdam Orchestra.
She is equally active as a chamber musician and has coached and performed with Daniel Avshalomov, Alan Kay, and David Krakauer, as well as participated in chamber music programs such as Lincoln Center Stage and YMF Chamber Music Series.
She currently tours with the genre-bending trio Take3 and female-driven pop vocal trio, Divas3, and has previously toured North America with the chamber music theater group, Core Ensemble.
For the past 6 years, Ms. Han has been a music theater pianist for Manhattan School of Music and has performed in Into The Woods, Legally Blonde, Matilda, Fiddler on the Roof, among others, as well as playing on Broadway’s Book of Mormon and Jagged Little Pill.
Working with the Bridge Arts Ensemble for the past 7 years, Ms. Han has taught workshops and masterclasses as a teaching artist in over 50 public schools in Upstate New York and has held her own private studio across both California, New Jersey, and New York.
Ms. Han holds a Bachelors and Master of Music Degree in the Classical Piano Performance Program with scholarships from the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. She has studied previously with Solomon Mikowsky, Louise Lepley, and additional studies and masterclasses with Sergei Babayan and John Perry.
David Gordon
Cantor
David Gordon is an operatic tenor specializing in the old guys, bad guys, and monsters of contemporary opera. Recently David was seen as Sebastian in Joseph Summers’ THE TEMPEST with Teatro Grattacielo at La Mama in New York (July 2026). David has sung with Trilogy: An Opera Company, a Newark-based and artist-led organization dedicated to operatic works by and about African Americans. David holds the (dubious?) distinction of having originated, in Newark in November of 2016, the role of Donald Trump in Anthony Davis’ Pulitzer Prize winning opera (CENTRAL PARK) FIVE, along with founder Kevin Maynor, music director Maestro Julius Williams, director Mark Clayton Southers. David has played terrible and not-so-terrible white guys in several other Trilogy productions, including works by Dorothy Rudd Moore, Thea Musgrave, and Michael Rafael.
David has sung with the Center for Contemporary Opera (CCO), including William Mayer’s A DEATH IN THE FAMILY. David has sung works by Peter Westergaard, Rachel Peters, Royce Vavrek, Benjamin Britten, and Kamala Sankaram.
Some favorite roles: Herodes in Strauss’ SALOME; Loge in Wagner’s DAS RHEINGOLD; Spalanzani in Offenbach’s LES COMTES D’HOFFMANN; Elders Gleaton and Hayes in Floyd’s SUSANNAH; Buddy Sorrel in a jazz-opera adaptation of THE LIFE AND LOVES OF JOE COOGAN (an episode of the Dick Van Dyck show). In 2021, David was recorded as George Papandreiou in the recording release of ANGELA’S RING, a big-band pastiche opera by Marie Incontrera and Kabir Sehgal.
After several years of directing and design study at the University of Michigan, David was a theatre technician in NYC (notably for Blue Man Group) before studying voice under Metropolitan Opera tenor George Shirley. David then received a Master of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music. He currently teaches on the Voice and Opera Faculty of the MSM Precollege Division. His students have been accepted at major music conservatory and university music programs in the United States. David currently studies vocal technique with Michael Paul.
As a stage director, David has worked with Ramapo College of New Jersey (Ride the Cyclone, Urinetown, Trojan Women 2.0, Top Girls), Opera on Tap (Le nozze di Figaro), and Opera Grows in Brooklyn (Prairie Dogs from Wild Beasts of the Bungalow). David is on the board of directors of FlyRail / Opera on Tap and of American Opera Projects.
Peter Martin LMSW
Warden
Peter was a project organizer and manager in his two careers. In his third career – retirement – he has volunteered to help seniors in Washington Heights as board president at Riverstone Life Services, traveled to the West Bank on an education and witness tour, helped launch and run a literary reading series, and volunteered at several soup kitchens. He lives with two lovely women – his wife of 45 years and a 2-year-old cat. He likes to bake, read, walk and socialize.
Of special relevance to his newest adventure – Vestry – Peter served for 23 years on co-op boards and applied his building expertise on two parish Building Committees. His core aim is fairness.
He likes the spirit at Holy Trinity Inwood and wants to help guide this youthful, diverse parish into as much community involvement as we can find and manage. The comeback from dark times in the greater world begins with us in Inwood.
First two careers? Construction (Manhattan apartment renovation) and Social Work (addiction, homelessness, elder abuse, dementia).
Rt Rev. Dr. Lynn Elizabeth Walker, SSB, FRSA
Warden
Mother Lynn lives in the neighborhood with her wife and three cats, and first attended Holy Trinity Church in 2023. She is a member of the Society of Saint Basil, and she teaches philosophy at a local college. She is retired from the Army Medical Department. Lynn has many years’ experience working with nonprofit agencies in New York City providing housing and support services for LGBTQIA+ youths and for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Her academic interests include ecclesial history, military history, medieval literature, and late Victorian crime literature. She is the author of Forward! Thoughts of a Trans Woman on the Christian Journey (Wipf and Stock 2024).
Lynn serves in the Orthodox-Catholic Church of America as Ecumenical Officer and as Bishop. She has served parishes in New Jersey, Western New York, and New York City.
Jillian Harrison
Vestry
Jillian moved to Inwood in 2022 and has been attending Holy Trinity regularly since 2024. Professionally, she is a fundraiser at a non-profit theater. Her favorite part of the job is connecting with people across the city and beyond who share her passion for the arts, and she has equally enjoyed getting to know the passionate community here at Holy Trinity. Outside of work, she is pursuing an MA in Theatre at Hunter College, and when she is not working, studying, or seeing theater, her interests include knitting, thrifting, hiking, and hanging out with her cat.
Nathan Pratyksh Khanna
Vestry
Nathan and his family, have been regular worshippers since joining the congregation in January 2025. Nathan has written several articles addressing a range of apologetic and theological subjects and seeks to articulate Christian belief with clarity, conviction, and sensitivity to contemporary questions.
Nathan is a writer and poet drawing from everyday experiences and human relationships. Through this work, he seeks to highlight the quiet lessons and grace found in ordinary moments of God’s creation. Nathan holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and Management. He is married to Swati and has a son, Irenaeus who was baptized here in 2025.
Elinol Lopez
Vestry
Elinol is a Dominican American and Washington Heights native with a love for Uptown New York and its communities. She has worked in public health research for eight years at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and is earning her master’s in Mental Health Counseling at Teachers College, Columbia University.
As part of her training, Elinol provides free mental health programming designed to expand access to culturally responsive care among marginalized communities. Her work is informed by the principles of liberation psychology, with an emphasis on honoring the dignity and wisdom of each person and community. She approaches this work with a spirit of service and a belief in the transformative power of healing through meaningful connection.
Elinol is also a creative writer and serves on the editorial board of Crescendo Magazine. Her short story “It Becomes Me,” published by Digging Press, received the Editor’s Choice Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her essay “Decoding La Doña’s Love” was published in the Dominican Writers chapbook series La Doña: Essays on the Dominican Matriarch. She is currently working on a gothic novella and a children’s series inspired by The Baby-Sitters Club.
Elinol loves playing ping pong and watching movies, particularly scary movies and psychological thrillers. She loves turtles, pigeons, and donkeys, and listens to her Christmas playlist year-round.