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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  • HP Rivers

    HP Rivers (they/them, also known as Helen Cassara) was raised on love and coffee by Westside UU Church in Knoxville, TN....

  • Darcy Roake

    The Reverend Darcy Roake is a Unitarian Universalist Minister who supports our Association’s Stewardship work through our UUA Society for Stewardship as well as preaching , teaching and connecting UU Congregants across the United States. Rev. Darcy lives in New Orleans, LA with her husband Adrian...

  • Lauren Robbins

    Lauren Robbins is a mental health therapist in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, and a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Provider.

  • Ralph Yeager Roberts

    Ralph is one of the creators of the Montessori-inspired curriculum Spirit Play, which is used by hundreds of UU churches across the us and canada....

  • Anne Robertson

    Anne Robertson is a United Methodist Church minister currently serving as executive director of the historic Massachusetts Bible Society. She is also the author of God with Skin On and the popular curriculum Exploring the Bible: The Dickinson Series.

  • Patricia Robin Woodruff

    Artist Patricia Robin Woodruff is a UU from Emporium, Pennsylvania.

  • Christian Robinson

    Christian Robinson was born in Hollywood, California. He grew up in a small one-bedroom apartment with his brother, two cousins, aunt, and grandmother. Drawing became a way to make space for himself and to create the kind of world he wanted to see....

  • Christine Robinson

    Rev. Christine Robinson served Unitarian Universalist congregations in Columbia, South Carolina and Albuquerque, New Mexico over thirty-five years and currently works as a consultant for large congregations. She is a co-author of three books of resources for small group spiritual conversations,...

  • David M. Robinson

    David M. Robinson is a leading authority on Emerson and the New England Transcendentalist movement. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Spiritual Emerson and Emerson and the Conduct of Life....

  • Lee Robinson

    Lee Robinson, author of the poetry collection Hearsay (Fordham University Press, 2004), lives in the Texas hill country but maintains her membership at the Unitarian Church in Charleston, South Carolina, which she attended for twenty years.

  • Zanaida Stewart Robles

    Dr. Zanaida Stewart Robles is a fierce advocate for diversity and inclusion in music education and performance....

  • T. Michael Rock

    The Reverend T. Michael Rock is a pastor and teacher at Robbinsdale United Church of Christ in Minneapolis. He has been a leading trainer for Our Whole Lives since 1999 and a trainer for Created in God's Image since 1992....

  • Ellen Rockett

    Ellen Rockett (they/them), a Unitarian Universalist young adult, is a graphic designer. Please visit their professional website for more information.

  • Brenda Rodriguez

    Brenda Rodriguez is an illustrator, designer, and recent graduate of Rhode Island School of Design. Her whimsical illustrations are influenced by spaces and events in her own life. Originally from Miami, Brenda now resides in Washington, DC with her partner, Gabe.

  • Tandi Rogers

    Rev. Tandi Rogers is a multi-vocational minister: a Learning, Innovation, and Growth Strategist; affiliate faculty at Meadville Lombard Theological School; and a Spiritual Director in private practice. Tandi served the UUA for 20 years in many roles (2002-2022.

  • Richard Rohr

    Richard Rohr, O.F.M. is a Franciscan friar ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church in 1970. He is the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fr. Richard’s teaching is grounded in the Franciscan alternative orthodoxy—practices of...

  • Fariha Róisín

    Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being....

  • Kathleen Rolenz

    Kathleen Rolenz is the Interim Minister at the Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Appleton, Wisconsin.

  • Benjamin Van Rooij

    Benjamin van Rooij, PhD, is a professor in law and society and the director of research at the School of Law at the University of Amsterdam and the Global Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Findings from his two decades of academic work have been featured in the New York...

  • Mike Rose

    Mike Rose is a professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He has taught in a wide range of educational settings, from elementary school to adult literacy and job training programs....

  • 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.