In April 2026, after nearly ten years with the Church Staff Finances group, Jan moved into the newly created role of Congregational Staffing Director on the Congregational Life Leadership Team. Her portfolio includes equipping congregations for excellence as employers; providing compensation and staffing guidance; and supporting congregational staff and professional organizations through consultations, liaison relationships, and project work. Jan takes a special interest in helping congregational leaders Staff Sustainably and Faithfully, and she loves to share frameworks such as Adaptive Leadership and Polarity Thinking.

Jan joined the UUA staff in 2011, spending her first five years in the Professional Development Office. A Credentialed Religious Educator, Jan had previously worked in religious education at the congregational and district levels and served as a Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDA) Good Officer and Board member. She strives to bring all of the skills and sensibilities of an educator to her current role!

Jan telecommutes from her home near Rochester, NY, where she lives with her husband, Mike. They have three young-adult children. Jan is an avid walker, a lover of word and number puzzles, and an enthusiastic soprano in the First Unitarian Church of Rochester choir.