Resume and Experience
Professional Experience
Minister, Aug 2021-present
First Parish Church Unitarian Universalist, Kingston, MA
Solo minister for an historic family-sized congregation located on the South Shore of Massachusetts.
Director of Campus and Outreach Ministry, July 2019-June 2021
Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School, New Haven CT
Graduate fellowship serving the Andover Newton program community of students and alumni. Portfolio includes pastoral care, fellowship-building events and activities, leadership and mentorship on retreat and border-crossing programs and cultivation of relationships between current students and alumni.
Ministerial Intern, August 2019-June 2021
Unitarian-Universalist Area Church at First Parish, Sherborn MA
Two-year part time internship in mid-sized greater Boston congregation. Preach monthly, weekly worship curation and leadership, congregational pastoral care and special projects like leading ancillary worship services and adult small group faith formation activities.
Chaplain Intern (CPE), May 2017 - August 2017
Yale-New Haven Hospital, Department of Spiritual Care, New Haven, CT
Full-time chaplaincy internship (ACPE-accredited) at a 1,200-bed urban hospital with level one trauma center, cancer hospital and children’s hospital.
Academic Department Manager, January 2011 - August 2016
Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI
Managed and supervised the complete financial, administrative and human resources operations for the department, ensuring that all practices and processes conformed to University policies. Direct supervision of three staff members; indirect supervision of entire departmental staff of ten.
Associate General Manager, January 2003 - January 2011
The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, NY, NY
Exercised contract negotiation and budgetary management for an Off-Broadway non-profit theater company with a year-round operating budget of over $20 million; financial, personnel and supervisory management of over one hundred theatrical productions.
Committee Work (Selected)
Andover Newton Seminary Student Founders Advisory Committee (2017-2019)
Spiritual Formation Committee at Yale (2017 - present)
FERNS Environmental Student Group at Yale (2017-2019)
Unitarian Universalist Student Group at Yale (2016-2019)
First Unitarian Church of Providence Annual Stewardship Drive (2013-2016)
West Broadway Neighborhood Association Board of Directors, Providence, RI (2014-2016)
President’s Staff Advisory Council, Brown University, Providence, RI (2014-2015)
Education
Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT
Masters of Divinity, awarded May 2019
Diploma in Congregational Ministry, Andover Newton Seminary at Yale
Certificate in Educational Leadership in Ministry, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Bachelor of Arts, awarded December 2012
Major - Theater; Minor - Business
Student Work at Yale (Selected)
Ministerial Intern, September 2018 - May 2019
Yale Humanist Community, New Haven, CT
Part-time internship supporting the work of the Yale Humanist Community, an independent non-profit serving the Yale and Greater New Haven communities.
Student Chapel Minister, August 2018 - May 2019
Marquand Chapel, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT
Student position curating and facilitating daily ecumenical worship services for YDS community.
Coordinator of Before the Fall Orientation Program, June 2018 - August 2018
Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT
Lead coordinator for YDS orientation program for incoming class of 125 students.
Assessment Associate for the Office of Ministerial and Social Leadership, August 2017 - 2019
Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT
Support position to the Associate Dean advising M.Div. students in preparation for mid-degree assessment interviews and building online academic portfolios.
Scholarships and Awards
• Joan Bates Forsberg Annual Scholarship for women in creative pastoral ministry, Yale Divinity School, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19.
• Interfaith Spirituality Scholarship, Unitarian Universalist Association, 2018-2019.
• Charles S. Mersick Prize for effective public address, especially in preaching, Yale Divinity School, October 2018.
• Henry Hallam Tweedy Prize for exceptional promise in pastoral leadership, Yale Divinity School, May 2019.