Abigail Visco Rusert

Associate Dean, Office of Continuing Education

Abigail (she/her) is the Associate Dean of Continuing Education at Princeton Theological Seminary, which houses the Collaboratory. She is an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and has held a variety of roles in higher education and ministry, including serving as the Director of the Institute for Youth Ministry, an associate pastor, youth director, chaplain, and camp counselor. Abigail is passionate about researching and designing programs that cultivate Christian leaders and transform faith-based communities. She collaborates with faculty to lead and operationalize projects that foster changemaking in the academy and the church. A graduate of Valparaiso University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and a current PhD student at Notre Dame of Maryland University, she is the co-author of the book Delighted: What Teenagers are Teaching the Church About Joy. Abigail serves on the Research Advisory Board of the Springtide Research Institute. Abigail and her husband, Thomas, have three kids—Dorothy, Solveig, and Frank—and live in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where Abigail serves as a small group leader at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.