The D.C. Pastor in Charge of the DNC

In Washington, the Rev. Leah Daughtry is the pastor at House of the Lord Church on Seventh Street SW.

But in Philadelphia this week, she’s playing a different leadership role: She’s the CEO of the Democratic National Convention.

Less than three hours before she kicked off the convention, the second one that she has led, Daughtry talked to The Post about the role of faith in her political pursuits, about her civil rights activist father, the Rev. Herbert Daughtry, and about the African American female pioneers in the Democratic Party who paved the way for her.