Reverend Leslie “Pastor Isai” Oliver is a musician, a gospel house music singer, a dynamic educator and artist who eats, sleeps and breathes all the adjectives and accolades that describe her.
Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, she relocated to Charlotte in 2004. Oliver is an academician with multiple degrees. To date she’s earned a B.A. in English from Rutgers University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Full Sail University and a M.Div. (Masters of Divinity) in Pastoral Care from Union Presbyterian Seminary. She’s a busy woman who teaches full time for Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools and an Adjunct ESL professor at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC). She is also a theomusicologist for the NC Poor People’s Campaign.