Rev. Sunshine J. Wolfe is Regional Lead for the Pacific Western Region based in Phoenix, AZ. They hail originally from Indiana where they learned to sing, dance, and cause trouble- the social justice kind. Sunshine is committed to supporting congregations to become the most connected versions of themselves so that they can do their important work in the world. Sunshine has a sticker ministry. If you see them, ask for a sticker. We need all of the joy as we live our complicated and messy lives.

Sunshine has served many congregations throughout the country first as Spiritual Development Director at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson. They served as intern minister at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Cleveland, OH and then completed a Chaplaincy Residency at Indiana University Health Hospitals. They also served as Interim Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Montgomery, AL, First Unitarian Church of Alton, IL, in the St. Louis metropolitan area and May Memorial UU Society in Syracuse, NY. During their service in Alton, Sunshine was active with the resistance movements in Ferguson, MO. Before seminary, Sunshine worked for five years as a Case Manager with homeless adults searching for employment in Tucson, AZ. Sunshine has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, and a Master of Divinity degree from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, CA.

Sunshine enjoys silliness, board games, music of all kinds, and thunderstorms. They particularly like to go hiking, color mandalas, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where a small handful have gone before. In other words, they are a speculative fiction geek with a specialty in Star Trek.

Sunshine identifies as genderqueer and transgender and uses any third gender pronoun including they/their, ghe/gher, and zi/hir.

Sunshine is a member of:

• TRUUsT (Transgender Religious professional Unitarian UniversalistS Together)
• DRUUMM (Diverse Revolutionary Multicultural Ministries)
• UUMA (UU Minister’s Association)
• LREDA (Liberal Religious Educators Association)
• AUUMM (Association for UU Music Ministries)