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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  • Catherine Ceniza Choy

    Catherine Ceniza Choy is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Before that, she was an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of the books Empire of Care and Global Families and the co-editor of the...

  • Heather Christensen
    Heather Christensen

    The Rev. Heather Christensen wrote The Interdependent Web, UU World's weekly guide to Unitarian Universalist blogs, from 2011 until 2020. She lives with her two young children in Bellingham, Washington. Christensen grew up in a Plymouth Brethren meeting, was ordained in the Presbyterian Church...

  • Jan Christian
    Jan Christian

    The Rev. Jan Christian served as Congregational Life Staff for the Pacific Western Region from 2015-1019. Prior to working for the UUA, Jan served for thirteen years as minister of our congregation in Ventura, California. During that time, she also served for eight years on the Unitarian...

  • Jezz Chung

    Jezz Chung (they/them) is an artist, poet, and public speaker focusing on cultural change through personal transformation. Jezz's neurodivergent, queer, Korean American experiences shape their work, which has been featured in outlets like TeenVogue, Paper Magazine, and Fast Company, among many...

  • Forrest Church

    Forrest Church is senior minister of All Souls Unitarian Church in New York City. He received his Ph.D. in church history from Harvard and has written or edited more than twenty books, including Life Lines, Lifecraft, The American Creed, and Freedom from Fear.

  • Albert F Ciarcia
  • A charcoal sketch of Rev. Carol Cissel, in her clergy collar
    Carol Thomas Cissel

    Rev. Carol Thomas Cissel, (M.S., M.Div.), is the settled minister of the UU Fellowship of Centre County in State College, PA. She is passionate about homiletics, crafting exuberant worship, travel, and small batch bourbon. Carol collects the masterworks of both Native American and First Nations...

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    Lori Emison Clair

    Lori Emison Clair worked with the amazing staff at First Unitarian Church in Des Moines from 2004 to 2015. During Lori’s 11 years on staff, First Unitarian membership grew from 240 to 539. Lori’s position began as part-time Membership Coordinator overseeing a mostly lay-led visitor process to...

  • Eli Clare

    White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare lives near Lake Champlain in occupied Abenaki territory (also known as Vermont) where he writes and proudly claims a penchant for rabble-rousing. He has written two books of essays, the award-winning Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile...

  • Cindy Clarenbach