Education and Experience

Education

• Ph.D. Student, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA (2011-Present)
• Master of Divinity, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA (2008)
• B.A., magna cum laude, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA (2005)
• College Year in Athens, Athens, Greece (Semester Abroad Spring 2004)
• Languages: Spanish, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Latin, and modern Greek

Professional Memberships

• American Academy of Religion, Member since 2005.
• Liberal Religious Educators’ Association (LREDA), Member since 2008.
• Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, Member since 2012.

Unitarian Universalist Positions Held

• Director of Religious Education, Unitarian Universalist Church of Stockton, Stockton, CA. August 2011 – January 2013.
• Acting Director of Religious Education, UnitarianUniversalist Church in Cherry Hill, Cherry Hill, NJ. December 2008 – June 2011.
• Faculty, Starr King School for the Ministry . Course: NeoPagan Liturgy: Earth Ritual, Fall 2013.  

Other Professional Experiences (click here).

Knowledge of RE Curricula
Each congregation has unique needs for Religious Education curriculum and programs. As a religious educator, I would survey the church before recommending one program over another. These are a few of the programs I have used:

• UUA Tapestry of Faith and other Unitarian Universalist curricula 
• Our Whole Lives sexuality education programs for K-12
• Neighboring Faiths, a curriculum for exploring world religions with Junior High Youth
• Coming of Age Handbook for Congregations by Sarah Gibb Millspaugh
• Workshop Rotation Sunday School Model (I have aspirations to publish my original adaptation of Workshop Rotation Model coordinated with the seven UU principles.)

Certifications

• Trained Facilitator, Jr./Sr. High Our Whole Lives.
• Possibly becoming a Trainer of Trainers for Our Whole Lives, i.e. eligible to teach and certify others to become Our Whole Lives Facilitators (could be an additional source of income for UUCB).
• Certificate in Sexuality and Religion, Pacific School of Religion, 2008. 
• Certified in CPR and First Aid. 

Unitarian Universalist Trainings Attended

I have participated in the following trainings for religious educators: New DRE Workshop (LREDA Fall Conference October 2011) Interim DRE Training (July 2010), Jr./Sr. High Facilitator Training for Our Whole Lives (Murray Grove, NJ July 2009), Unitarian Universalist Identity (West Chester, PA Spring 2009), Dynamic Unitarian Universalist Youth Ministry (Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, CA April 2008), and Starr King Symposium 2012: Living in the Differences: Counter-Oppressive, Multi-Religious The( )logies in the 21^st Century with Dr. Ibrahim Farajajé.

All of these experiences contribute to my work in family ministry.

  

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