Lyvonne Briggs, MDiv, ThM, an Emmy Award winner, is a body- and sex-positive womanist preacher, speaker, coach, and creator. Briggs is the host of the Sensual Faith podcast and the founder of beautiful scars, a healing-centered storytelling agency focused on fostering pleasure and resiliency;...

Stephanie A. Brill is the founder of Gender Spectrum Education and Training which provides education, resources and training to create a more gender sensitive and supportive environment for all children....

Robin Broad is an expert in international development and was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship for her work surrounding mining in El Salvador, as well as two previous MacArthur fellowships. A professor at American University, she served as an international economist in the US Treasury...

Rita Nakashima Brock is author of the award-winning Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power and coauthor of the critically-acclaimed Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us....

Michael Andor Brodeur has been the classical music critic at the Washington Post since 2020. Previously, he held editorial and staff-writer positions at the Boston Globe and Boston’s Weekly Dig. His essays, humor, and criticism have also appeared in Nylon, Thrillist, Entrepreneur, Medium,...

Michael Bronski has been involved in gay liberation as a political organizer, writer, and editor for more than four decades. The author of several award-winning books, including A Queer History of the United States, he most recently coauthored “You Can Tell Just by Looking”: And 20 Other Myths...

BRIAN BROOME, a poet and screenwriter, is K. Leroy Irvis Fellow and instructor in the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is pursuing an MFA....

Jennifer Browdy teaches comparative literature and gender studies at Simon’s Rock College of Bard. She was also a coeditor of African Women Writing Resistance and of Writing Fire: An Anthology Celebrating the Power of Women’s Words. She lives in Housatonic, Massachusetts.

adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice; co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements; cohost of the...

Alison Brown grew up in Northern Ireland and studied Fine Art in Liverpool, England. Before becoming a full-time illustrator and writer, she did many other jobs, including teaching, working in a bookshop, and as a designer in an advertising agency. Alison’s books have been translated into fifteen...

The Rev. Andrew James Brown is a Unitarian and Free Christian minister and university chaplain in Cambridge, England.

Austin Channing Brown is a writer, speaker, and practitioner who helps schools, nonprofits, and religious organizations practice genuine inclusion. Her writing has appeared in outlets like Christianity Today, Relevant, Sojourners, and The Christian Century.

Dr. Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation–Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past sixteen years studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author...

Ellie Brown is a young adult of color and a lifelong Unitarian Universalist. She has participated in many Unitarian Universalist related events such as the Southeast Unitarian Universalist Summer Institute, Mul… Leadership School 2015, the General Assembly 2014, and the National Youth Justice...

Gaia Brown is a religious educator who has served congregations in Ridgewood, NJ, and Deerfield, IL.

Jericho Brown is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of a Whiting Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues, 2008),...

Ken was on the UUA staff for the PSWD and the PWR for 16 years and a Unitarian Universalist minister for 41 years. His interests involve building leadership teams, congregational organization and governance, congregational assessment and multi-site ministry....

Lyn Mikel Brown has been studying and working with girls for more than twenty-five years. A professor of education and human development at Colby College, she is the author of five previous books about gender and girlhood, and is the cofounder of three grassroots organizations.

Valerie Brown a Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher, facilitator, and executive coach. A former lawyer and lobbyist, she is co-director of Georgetown's Institute for Transformational Leadership as well as founder and chief mindfulness officer of Lead Smart Coaching. She is an ordained Buddhist Dharma...

Walter Brueggemann is an American Protestant Old Testament scholar and theologian who is widely considered one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last several decades.

Jennifer Elizabeth Brunton, Ph.D., is a writer, editor, former ethics professor, and author of the blog Full Spectrum Mama where she writes about her experience as an autistic mother raising two children, one of whom is also on the Autism spectrum.

Howard Bryant is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine and has served as the sports correspondent for NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday since 2006....

Jaidyn Bryant is a 17-year-old youth member at Unitarian Universalist Church of Baton Rouge. Jaidyn lives in Baton Rouge, LA and identifies as and African-American bisexual, using pronouns she/her/hers.

Linda Buckmaster is a founding member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Belfast, Maine, whose fiction and poetry have appeared in publications such as Words and Images 2000 and Animus.

Frederick Buechner (pronounced BEEK-ner) is an American writer and theologian. He is the author of more than thirty published books and has been an important source of inspiration and learning for many readers....

John Buehrens is the co-author of A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism and A House for Hope: The Promise of Progressive and author of Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberal....

Rev. Israel Buffardi (he/him) is the Associate Minister for Member & Community Engagement at the UU Congregation at Shelter Rock (NY).

Paul Buhle, a retired senior lecturer at Brown University, is the authorized biographer of C. L. R. James. He has edited more than a dozen nonfiction graphic novels, including Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson...

The Rev. Chris Buice is minister of the Tennessee Valley UU Church in Knoxville, Tenn.

The Rev. David E. Bumbaugh served congregations in Ohio, Illinois, Virginia, New York, and New Jersey, and is minister emeritus of the Unitarian Church of Summit, New Jersey....