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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  • Tiffany Rose

    Tiffany Rose is a teacher, world traveler, and the left-handed author/illustrator of M is for Melanin. She is also the illustrator of Abdul’s Story, All I Need to Be, and Hurry Kate, or You’ll Be Late. Tiffany is passionate about creating art and meaningful stories that reflect the everyday...

  • Tricia Rose

    Tricia Rose, PhD is an internationally respected, award-winning scholar of Black culture, social issues and gender. She is Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. Her current work illuminates how...

  • Robert Rosen

    Dr. Robert H. Rosen is a psychologist and CEO of Healthy Companies International. He has written and co-authored several books, including Just Enough Anxiety: The Hidden Driver of Business Success. Rosen is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Virginia.

  • Jonathan Rosenblum

    Jonathan Rosenblum has been a labor organizer for more than thirty years, playing key roles including Sea-Tac Airport campaign director. His writing has been featured in Tikkun, In These Times, and Yes! Magazine. He lives in Seattle, WA.

  • Adrianne Ross

    Adrianne Ross served the Unitarian Universalist Association as Project Manager during the development and launch of the Tapestry of Faith curriculum project. She continues to learn many life lessons as a race car driver and as a member of several charitable boards, while pursuing her hobby of...

  • Jeanette Ross

    Professional storyteller Jeanette Ross has taught drama for over twenty years in a variety of settings, including the Idaho Theater for Youth, Seattle’s Pacific Arts Center and Bechtel International Center in Stanford, CA. She is a writer, as well as a television producer and regular host for...

  • Jerald Ross

    Jerry Ross is a member of the Peace and Justice Committee at First Parish in Bedford (MA) Unitarian Universalist where he serves as a UU-UNO Envoy...

  • Jim Ross

    Jim Ross, a retired public health researcher, writes and creates photo essays as forms of activism. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

  • Warren R. Ross

    Warren R. Ross (1926-2015) was a UU World contributing editor at the time of his death. He began writing for the magazine in 1989. He was a member of the Community Unitarian Church in White Plains, New York, and had served as president of the Metropolitan New York District of the Unitarian...

  • Chris Rothbauer

    Rev. Chris Rothbauer (they/them) is a Unitarian Universalist minister, spiritual companion, and dreamworker currently serving as the Senior Minister at Horizon Unitarian Universalist Church in Carrollton, Texas. In addition to their work in parish and community ministry, they have served on the...

  • Donald Rothberg

    Donald Rothberg is one of the major teachers and writers on socially engaged Buddhism in the United States. He is a meditation teacher on the Spirit Rock Teachers' Council in northern California and has been an organizer, teacher, and board member for the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Rothberg also...

  • Shelley Rotner

    Shelley Rotner is an award-winning author and photo illustrator of more than fifty books for young readers. With a background as an elementary school teacher, museum educational specialist, and UNICEF photographer, Rotner is also a noted freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in Time...

  • James (Chip) Roush

    James (Chip) Roush co-founded "Undoing Racism at Meadville-Lombard: a Committee for Honesty, Education and Reconciliation" at the Unitarian Universalist seminary in Chicago. He serves as the senior minister to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse, in Traverse City, Michigan.

  • Isabel Roxas

    Isabel Roxas is an illustrator, graphic designer, and traveler. She lives in Queens, New York.

  • Leah Rubin-Cadrain

    Leah Rubin-Cadrain was a UU World intern in January 2007 during her senior year at Yale University, where she majored in literature and religious studies. She grew up attending the Unitarian Society of Hartford, Conn.

  • Renee Ruchotzke

    Rev. Renee Ruchotzke (ruh-HUT-skee) is a Congregational Life Consultant and program manager for Leadership Development.

  • Cullen Ruff

    Dr. Cullen Ruff is in private practice and an assistant professor of radiology at Virginia Common­wealth University. A member of the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Church of Arlington, Virginia, he is at work on a book, Looking Within: Imaging the Body, Exploring the Human Spirit.

  • Pam Rumancik

    Rev. Pam Rumancik is a white, cisgender, queer woman currently serving the Unitarian Church of Hinsdale, Illinois....

  • Masha Rumer

    Masha Rumer is an award-winning journalist and freelance writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Quartz, the Moscow Times, Parents.com, SFWeekly, Volume 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, she now lives with her family in...

  • Ji Ruoxiao

    Ji Ruoxiao was honored at the First National Art Exhibition of Chinese Landscape Painting with the Selected Work Award, and she received the Maple Leaf Award at the Oriental Sumi Art Exhibition....

  • Salman Rushdie

    Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of...

  • James W. Russell

    James W. Russell is the author of eight books, including Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States....

  • Jennifer Ruth

    Jennifer Ruth is associate dean in the College of the Arts and professor in the School of Film at Portland State University....

  • Danya Ruttenberg

    Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg is an award-winning author and writer. She serves as Scholar in Residence at the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW). Ruttenberg was named by Newsweek and The Daily Beast as one of 10 “rabbis to watch;” as one of 21 “faith leaders to watch” by the Center for...

  • Nathan Ryan

    Rev. Nathan Ryan was called in November 2020 as the Senior Minister of the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge. A Louisiana native, Nathan makes a mean red beans & rice, and believes that good food goes a long way toward world peace.

  • David Rynick

    David Rynick is a life and leadership coach. He is a member of the First Unitarian Church of Worcester, Massachusetts, and one of the founders and guiding teachers of the Boundless Way Zen community.

  • Jane Rzepka

    Jane Ranney Rzepka is the author of A Small Heaven and Thematic Preaching and former minister of congregations in Winchester and Reading, Massachusetts, as well as the Church of the Larger Fellowship. She taught preaching at Harvard Divinity School for a number of years.

  • Toby Rzepka

    A third generation UU, Toby Rzepka grew up as the minister’s kid at the UU Church of Reading, Massachusetts, and went on to work for the Church of the Larger Fellowship. Visit his wesite at Toby Rzepka.

  • Jessi Sadaka

    Jessi Sadaka (they/them) first discovered a UU home via First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus (Ohio). They enjoy volunteering with caring and justice ministries. Their BA is from The College of Wooster.

  • Sana Saeed

    Rev. Sana Saeed is the Congregational Life Staff for the Central East Region of the UUA since July. Previously, she was an Intern Minister for UU Ministers Association (UUMA) and was the President of Diverse Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM). She’s a graduate of Harvard Divinity...

  • Victoria Safford

    Victoria Safford is the minister at of White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Walking Toward Morning, the 2003 UUA Meditation Manual and With or Without Candlelight: A Meditation Anthology. Both are published by Skinner House Books.

  • Rumni Saha

    Rumni Saha graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from Boston University School of Theology. Ms. Saha serves as an Multifaith Chaplain at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as well as the Hindu Affiliate Chaplain at Wellesley College. She loves her congregation, the Unitarian Church of Sharon, MA.

  • Angela Saini

    Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist whose print and broadcast work has appeared on the BBC and in the Guardian, New Scientist, Wired, the Economist, and Science. A former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s...

  • Buffy Sainte-Marie

    Buffy Sainte-Marie is a world-renowned and Academy Award-winning Cree singer–songwriter, activist, educator, and visual artist. Her other books for kids include Hey Little Rockabye, illustrated by Ben Hodson, and T∾irc;pw≖c; and the Magic Hat.

  • Komako Sakai

    Komako Sakai lives in Japan and studied art in Tokyo. She is one of the most popular children’s illustrators in Japan and winner of the Japanese Picture Book Prize, and her books are published throughout the world.

  • Shige Sakurai (they/them)

    Shige Sakurai (they/them) serves as Director of Equity, Belonging, and Change at the Unitarian Universalist Association, a progressive religious denomination with over 1,000 congregations.

  • Aida Salazar

    Aida Salazar is an award-winning author and arts activist whose writings for adults and children explore issues of identity and social justice....

  • C. Pierce Salguero

    C. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary humanities scholar who is fascinated by the historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and cross-cultural exchange....

  • Michael E. Sallwasser

    Michael Sallwasser is a Trustee of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), elected in 2013. He is the convener of the Committees Working Group and Liaison to the Appointments Committee....

  • Anya Sammler-Michael

    A lifelong Unitarian Universalist, the Reverend Anya Sammler-Michael is a graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School where she concentrated on theology and ethics. Rev. Anya is married to Rev. Scott Sammler-Michael. Rev. Anya is dedicated to interfaith work and deepening our efforts of...