About the Authors
JESSICA YORK
Jessica York is the youth programs director in the Lifespan Faith Development staff group of the Unitarian Universalist Association. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, she previously served the Unitarian Universalist Church there as director of religious education. She is an Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education trainer for the elementary level and has taught in public elementary schools with a focus on special needs and hearing impaired children. A former theater stage manager, Jessica has owned and consulted to programs providing theater arts education for children. She holds a B.A. in biology from Yale University and has done graduate work in fine arts at Tulane University .
CHRISTY OLSON
Christy Olson has served Christian denominations as an education director and a children and family parish minister for 30 years. Her most recently written curricula are story-centered, workshop rotation model programs for ecumenical Christian religious education. An adjunct faculty member at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota and consultant to the Chisago Lakes Lutheran Church , Christy holds a degree in elementary education with a minor in elementary music and an M.A. in theology.
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Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.
