Reverend Dittmar graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1997. She served one year as Interim Minister at the Gathering at Northern Hills (Cincinnati, OH 1997-1998), and eighteen years as Minister at First Unitarian Church of Cincinnati (1998-2016). In 2016 she began work as Congregational Life Field Staff with the MidAmerica Region. Her areas of expertise include stewardship, staff supervision, leadership development, and conflict transformation, as well as a specialization in congregations with 200 — 500 adult members. Raised as a Presbyterian, she has a life long love of congregations. In her free time she can be found reading, writing, crocheting, gardening, cooking, drawing, having a good laugh, engaging in physical activity, and spending time with family and friends.