People: Staff, Authors, Contributors

The following people are UUA staff or have written UU World articles, WorshipWeb elements, or other material on UUA.org; or have contributed to items in the inSpirit Book & Gift Shop.

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  • Reverend Kelly J. Burd

    The Reverend Kelly J. Burd currently serves as pastor of Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ in Cleveland, Ohio. She earned a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and in 2000 was ordained and called to serve Dover Congregational UCC in Westlake, Ohio....

  • Sue Burke

    Sue Burke, a member of the Church of the Larger Fellowship, is a writer and translator living in Madrid, Spain.

  • Jim Burklo

    Rev. Jim Burklo is the Associate Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California. An ordained United Church of Christ pastor, he is the author of four published books: OPEN CHRISTIANITY, BIRDLIKE AND BARNLESS, HITCH-HIKING TO ALASKA: THE WAY OF SOULFUL SERVICE, a 2013 novel about...

  • Rachel V. Burlock

    Rachel V. Burlock lives in Concord, New Hampshire, with her husband and two daughters. She is a member of the UU Church of Concord, where she occasionally preaches, often plays music, and continues her lifelong pursuit of learning about as many things as she can.

  • Debra Burrell

    Debra Burrell (she/her) is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Metro Atlanta North Congregation. She’s an avid gardener and an occasional freelance writer.

  • John Burroughs

    Dr. John Burroughs is Executive Director of the New York City-based Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy. He represents LCNP in Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty meetings and the United Nations. He is author of The Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the...

  • Amy Burtaine

    Amy Burtaine has been co-facilitating workshops, providing coaching and mediation, and educating through an anti-oppression lens for over 20 years. While she has experience leading this work on a range of oppressions, her passion and commitment is to center race, specifically looking at how...

  • Tony Bushman

    Tony Bushman is a professor emeritus at San Francisco State University and has a masters of divinity from Starr King School of Ministry. He has led men’s groups for over 25 years and has developed over 100 workshops.

  • Chrissy Bushyager

    Chrissy Bushyager (she/her) is a credentialed religious educator serving in Media, PA. She believes in the power of story to connect people and deepen understanding. She lives with her wife and two teenage children in a house full of pets, laughter, and home baked goodies.

  • James Butler

    James Butler, M.Ed., has been teaching kindergarten and prekindergarten since 2002. He has a B.S. in education and early childhood from Indiana’s Manchester University and an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from Grand Canyon University....

  • Judith Butler

    Judith Butler is the author of several books including Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection, Excitable Speech, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, and The...

  • Octavia E. Butler

    Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was the author of many novels, including Dawn, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. She was the recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Nebula Award, and she twice won the Hugo Award.

  • S.J. Butler

    S.J. Butler is an active member of Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul, MN, where she publishes a journal of the arts and manages the adult and children's libraries.

  • Roger Butts

    Reverend Roger Butts is minister at Prairie UU in Parker Colorado and UU Congregation of the Outer Banks (Kitty Hawk, NC). He has been ordained in the UU tradition for 20 years.

  • Taylor Byas

    Taylor Byas is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the first-place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway, the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets, and the 2021 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. She is the author of the chapbooks Bloodwarm and Shutter and her...

  • Tim Byrne

    Tim Byrne has been working in the IT field for twenty-plus years, including stints as a trainer, database administrator and applications manager for large corporate law firms including Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale), Sherburne, Powers & Needham and Choate Hall & Stewart LLP....

  • Mary Byron

    Mary Byron is a member of the Commission on Institutional Change and the UUA Audit Committee and is formerly an executive with Goldman Sachs.

  • Offie C. Wortham

    Offie C. Wortham, a member of the Unitarian Church of Montpelier, Vermont, directs the nonprofit TransCultural Awareness Institute.

  • Marisol Caballero

    Rev. Marisol Caballero, Faith Innovation Specialist in the UUA’s Lifespan Faith Engagement Office, is a native Texan who lives and works in Austin. She enjoys social justice activism, cooking, crocheting, sewing, and traveling with her wife, son, and pup, Diego.

  • Mariona Cabassa

    Mariona was born in beautiful Barcelona where she currently lives with her loving husband and son. Growing up, she was always drawn to drawing and painting. Luckily, her parents supported all her artistic endeavors such as embroidery, pottery, cooking and even gardening....

  • Nic Cable

    Rev. Nic Cable is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist. He has served UU communities in Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota in various ministerial capacities, as well as at the Unitarian Universalist Association as a donor relations specialist. He is currently the minister of the UU Congregation of...

  • Diane Cadrain

    Diane Cadrain, an attorney who writes about employment law, is also an aspiring fiber artist and member of the Unitarian Society of Hartford, Connecticut.

  • Mark J. T. Caggiano

    Mark J. T. Caggiano currently serves as minister at First Church in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. A former lawyer, he is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School and received his Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School....

  • Quinn G. Caldwell

    Quinn Caldwell serves as pastor and teacher at Plymouth Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in Syracuse. He's known in the wider United Church of Christ (UCC) as a member of the UCC Stillspeaking Writers’ Group and an author for the Stillspeaking Daily Devotionals.

  • Cathy Callen

    Cathy Callen is a longtime member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Topeka, Kansas. She is the author of Running Out of Footprints (Mennonite Press, 2013).

  • Am&?eacutelie-Anne Calmo

    Am&?eacute;lie-Anne Calmo is an illustrator and graphic designer from Marseille, France.

  • Christopher Cameron

    Christopher Cameron is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a founder of the African American Intellectual History Society, the author of To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement and Black...

  • Donna Cameron

    Donna Cameron has spent her career working with nonprofit organizations and causes as an executive, consultant, trainer, and volunteer. She has seen kindness in action and been awed by its power to transform. When she committed to a year of living kindly she considered herself a reasonably nice...

  • Alana Campbell

    Alana Campbell is a gender equity intern at the UU-UNO and an undergraduate student at Fordham University. She is studying International Studies and Arabic and has a strong interest in women’s rights and health.

  • Judith Campbell

    Rev. Dr. ‘Judy’ Campbell is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and and the author of several books and articles. She has published children’s stories and poetry, as well as numerous essays on the arts, religion, and spirituality. She holds a PhD in The Arts and Religious Studies and a...

  • Lane-Mairead Campbell

    Rev. Lane-Mairead Campbell (they/them) serves as minister at the First Universalist Church of Rochester, New York. Lane has been in recovery for the last eight years.

  • Marcy Campbell

    Marcy Campbell has been published in literary journals and magazines, including HOOT Review and The Writer Magazine. She is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wayne County in Wooster, Ohio.

  • Angélica Canlas Castro

    Angélica Canlas Castro was a contributor to the book Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families (Skinner House, 2023).

  • Deb Cannon

    Deb Cannon (she/her) is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist, a mother of five, and is pursuing her Master's in Social Work through The Ohio State University. A long time writer, Deb celebrates her publication on WorshipWeb.

  • Mae Elise Cannon

    Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon is the executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace. She is an author, speaker, and advocate who cares deeply about God’s heart for the poor and the oppressed. She is the co-editor of Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice (IVP, 2019); editor of A Land...

  • Rita Capezzi

    A 2018 graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School, Rev. Dr. Rita Capezzi (she/her) joyfully serves the holy with the people of the Unitarian Congregation in Mississauga as Interim Minister. Together, they work to spread compassion and justice with their neighbors in Ontario.