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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  • Lara Bazelon

    Lara Bazelon is a writer, an attorney, and the director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinical Programs at the University of San Francisco School of Law....

  • George Kimmich Beach

    George Kimmich Beach holds degrees from Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School, and Wesley Theological Seminary. He served as minister of Unitarian Universalist churches in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Austin, Texas, and Arlington, Virginia, and an urban ministry in Cleveland, Ohio. His books...

  • CB Beal

    CB Beal, M. Div. (they/them) is a national consultant, a writer, storyteller, and itinerant religious educator. CB works with individuals and teams to explore equity and justice through the practice of Preemptive Radical Inclusion, lifelong sexuality and consent education, and safer communities.

  • Timothy K. Beal

    Timothy Beal is Distinguished University Professor and Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University. He has published essays on religion and culture for the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, and Washington Post, and is the...

  • Margaret L. Beard

    Margaret L. Beard is the editor for All Are Chosen and Listening for Our Song. Both by Skinner House Books.

  • Barbara Becker

    Barbara Becker has dedicated more than twenty-five years to partnering with human-rights advocates around the world in pursuit of peace and interreligious understanding. She has worked with the United Nations, Human Rights First, the Ms....

  • John Beckett

    John Beckett, a member of Denton, Texas, UU Fellowship, is a Druid graduate of the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids; the coordinating officer of the Denton Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans; and a former vice president of Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans Continental.

  • Louise Bednarik

    Louise Bednarik is the LGBTQ/SOGI program intern at the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office for the summer of 2018. She grew up in Port Townsend, Washington going to Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. She is now a rising senior at Haverford College, located just outside of...

  • Paul R Beedle

    Rev. Paul Beedle (him/his) serves the Unitarian Universalist Church of Little Rock.

  • Ruth Behar

    Ruth Behar-ethnographer, essayist, poet, and filmmaker-is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Behar is the author of several books, including The Vulnerable Observer. She lives in Ann Arbor,...

  • Marc Bekoff

    Marc Bekoff has published thirty books, including The Emotional Lives of Animals. He is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a former Guggenheim fellow. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

  • Amber Beland

    Rev. Amber Beland was ordained by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Milford (New Hampshire). A lifelong Unitarian Universalist, she has served the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis (Maryland) as assistant minister for lifespan faith development and the Church of the Younger...

  • Ken Beldon

    Editor Ken Beldon is the lead minister of WellSprings, a new Unitarian Universalist congregation outside of Philadelphia. He holds degrees from Oberlin College, Yale Divinity School and Union Theological Seminary. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Teresa Nazario, a news producer at CBS 3...

  • Margalie Belizaire

    For Rev. Margalie (she/her/hers), Unitarian Universalism has been lifesaving. She became a UU around 2013, following the advice of a friend to “check them out.” She has not looked back. Rev. Margalie is Haitian-American and grew up in Miami, Florida in a large family with seven siblings. She has...

  • Ali K.C. Bell

    Rev. Ali K.C. Bell (he/they/Ali) is a Black transmasculine genderqueer Unitarian Universalist Minister.

  • Rahele Jomepour Bell

    Rahele came to the United States in 2011 to pursue her dream of being a free international artist and graduated with an MFA in Integrated Visual Arts from Iowa State University in 2015....

  • Kyra Bellamy

    Kyra Bellamy is a Program Intern at the Unitarian Universalist Office at the United Nations working on Racial Justice, Women’s Rights, and Police Militarization during the 2020 summer.

  • Wren Bellavance-Grace

    Wren works with the New England Region team to support congregations across New England with particular experience in Safer Congregations, faith formation, and spiritual leadership.

  • Mark Belletini

    Mark Belletini is completing his thirty-seventh and final year in parish ministry. He has served at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus, Ohio, for the past seventeen. He previously served two congregations in California, and was chair of the commission that produced the Unitarian...

  • Richard Bellingham

    Richard Bellingham, Ed.D., is the CEO and founder of iobility, a New Jersey–based consulting firm that specializes in aligning people and organizations with a company’s mission, vision, and values. He has more than 25 years of experience working in the areas of ethical leadership, organizational...

  • Thom Belote

    Thom Belote serves as minister of the Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church in Overland Park, Kansas.

  • Mary Benard

    Mary Benard is the UUA's Publications Director, heading the Publications staff group, which is responsible for Skinner House Books, other UUA publishing, and inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop.

  • Caribay M. Benavides

    Caribay Marquina (1989) is a freelance illustrator born and raised in Mérida, Venezuela and currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Caribay Studied graphic design and nowdays works as a illustrator, exploring and developing a personal style that refers to the current fashion trends, personal...

  • Julie Benbassat

    Julie Benbassat is an award winning illustrator and painter based in Philadelphia. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019, she has gone on to amass a range of clients in editorial, publishing, games, and animation....

  • John Benford

    John Benford is a commercial photographer and visual storyteller, creating honest, authentic portrait and lifestyle images and powerful architectural images for clients of all sizes. He was raised UU and lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with his wife, the Rev. Kendra Ford, and their child....

  • Ruha Benjamin

    Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American studies and the founder of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton University. The author of the Stowe Prize–winning Viral Justice, as well as Race After Technology and People’s Science, Benjamin lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

  • Allison Bennett

    Allison Bennett was a UU World editorial intern in the fall and winter of 2012. She is a recent graduate of Westfield State University and grew up in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading, Massachusetts.

  • Jessie Bennett

    Jessie Bennett is a writer and social media specialist. She was the founding editor of Beacon Broadside, the blog of Beacon Press, and was assistant editor at Rain Taxi Review of Books.

  • Paul Alan Bennett

    Paul Alan Bennett has an MA in Greek History from the University of La Verne, Athens, Greece, and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon.

  • Caroline O. Berg

    Caroline Berg is an artist, game designer, programmer, and writer. She is known for numerous indie board and roleplaying games she has designed.

  • Constance Demuth Berg

    Constance Demuth Berg is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Macomb, Illinois.

  • Brandy Bergenstock

    Brandy Bergenstock is a collage artist and member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Peninsula in Newport News, Virginia.