Wilmer G. Villacorta, Ph.D.

Wilmer has a MDiv & Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary. He joined their School of Intercultural Studies faculty in 2009. Prior to coming to Fuller, Wilmer served on faculty and as Dean at the Latin American School of Missiology in Peru. He has served for over 15 years in pastoral positions in Paris, France, and for Latin congregations in New Jersey and California.

He is the author of Unmasking the Male Soul: Power and Gender Trap for Women in Leadership (2019) and Tug of War: The Downward Ascent of Power (2017). His dissertation, “Unmasking Machismo: From Malleability to Transformation of Andean Pentecostal Leaders in Central Peru,” argued that working alongside women in leadership is highly important to the positive transformation of male leaders in today’s church, specifically in the Latin American context.