Robert Eller-Isaacs (President)
Email: president@uuma.org
Business phone: (651) 228-1456

Rob Eller-Isaacs was brought up at First Unitarian Society of Chicago. He is a graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry. He was ordained by the Unitarian Society of Whittier, California which he served from 1976-82. In 1982 he became the first UUA urban extension minister when he begun his ministry in Oakland, California. His wife and partner-in-ministry, Janne Eller-Isaacs joined him there in 1986. Their ministry at Oakland was marked by an innovative commitment to shared ministry. In the fall of 2000 they became co-ministers of Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul, Minnesota. Rob has served the Association as chair of the Committee on Urban Concerns and Ministry, a member of the Ministerial Fellowship Committee and as convener of the team that designed the MFC Regional Sub-Committees. He was a member of the UUMA Executive Committee 1978-80. He now servers as President of Project Harvest Hope, chairs the program committee of Prairie Group and is President of the Senior Ministers of Large Unitarian Universalist Congregations. Rob and Janne have three children, Jonah (26), Jessie (25) and Hannah (17).

Sarah Lammert (Vice President)
Email: slammert@uuma.org
Business phone: (201) 444-6225

Sarah Lammert is a graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry (class of 1993) and currently serves as the minister of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, NJ, where she has been for five years. Sarah also served the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden UT from 1994-2002. She is the mother of two girls, Abby (12) and Lila (9) and has been married to Andy Crum for 15 years. Sarah served on the Mountain Desert District Extension Committee, was the President of the MDD UUMA Chapter, has been Cluster Leader for the NJ UUMA, and is completing 6 years on the Fund for Unitarian Universalism. She is very committed to local interfaith work and to promoting leadership skills development and well being (financial, physical, spiritual, and emotional) for clergy.

Gail Geisenhainer (Treasurer)
Email: GGeisenhainer@uuma.org
Business phone: (772) 778-5880

The Reverend Geisenhainer was ordained to the UU ministry by the Ellsworth, Maine UU Church in 1996. She grew up in Concord, MA and lived in Brooklin, ME before serving the Emerson UU Church in Canoga Park, CA (Los Angeles). She holds degrees from the Episcopal Divinity School an Bangor Theological Seminary. She is currently serving in her third year as the settled minister in Vero Beach, Florida. Rev. Gail and her life partner of 21 years, Celeste DeRoche, an historian, make their home with two dogs and an outrageous number of books.

Donald Southworth (Secretary)
Email: BOOKS2GROW@aol.com
Business phone: (919) 489-2575

Don Southworth graduated from Starr King School for the Ministry in 2000 after a twenty -year career in the corporate world in management, sales, marketing and training. He has served as Lead Minister at the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Durham, NC since August 2006. Previously he served congregations in San Francisco and Atlanta. He currently serves as Secretary on the UUMA Executive Committee.

Hope Johnson (ARAOM)
Email: YoursHOPE@aol.com

Hope Johnson, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau, Garden City, NY (MDiv 2001, NY Theological Seminary) describes herself as ‘Jamaican, by way of the world.’ She served First Unitarian Brooklyn, NY as Minister of Spiritual Life after ordination in 2002, prior to that she was Director of Life-Span Education. She strives to celebrate diversity and multiculturalism within an anti-racist, anti-oppression, faith based framework and has integrated her work in building the Beloved Community into every aspect of her ministry. Service to Unitarian Universalism includes membership: UUMA ARAOM; UUA Nominating Committee (incoming Chair); Family Matters Task Force; Metro NY District: Co-Chair Anti-Racism and Diversity Committee; Jubilee World Trainer. She was a co-recipient of the UUA President’s Award for Volunteer Service, 2006. Her daughter (18) is a UU leader. Among the many hats Hope wears is her favorite, “Jova’s Mom.”

Randolph Becker (Arrangements)
Email: rbecker@uuma.org

Randy received his D. Min. from Meadville/Lombard in 1972 following a Bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in physics and sociology. Prior to entering the ministry, he worked as a research physicist for Eastman Kodak and as a railroad engineer for the Penn Central. Randy now serves as Minister to the UU Fellowship of Key West, Conch Republic. Previously he served congregations in Park Forest, IL; Williamsburg, VA; Andover, MA; Providence, RI; and Mequon, WI. From 1980-95, he was the Religious Education Consultant to the Long Island(NY) Area Council of UU Societies. In the denomination, he has served on the Board of SRL, LREDA, CU2C2; was President of Ballou-Channing District and Doolittle Home; started the "Young Fun" program at GA; began the online course on Professional Ethics at Meadville/Lombard in 2008. Randy is married to Elissa Bishop-Becker, a therapist specializing in issues of loss, grief, and spirituality - Elissa was the Sophia Fahs lecturer at GA 2005. Their family includes: Ericka, a spiritual presence in their lives after her death in 1995; Lee, a marketing and merger consultant in New York and Suki, an economist with the US Government in DC.

Carol Huston (CENTER)
Email: revcarol@earthlink.net
Business phone: (914) 946-1660

Carol Huston has been minister of Community Unitarian Church at White Plains since August, 2001, a congregation comprised of almost 400 adults and 200 children and youth. Prior to this, she had a 9-year ministry north of Detroit, Michigan. She brings to her ministry a great interest in building intergenerational community and encouraging interfaith cooperation. Currently her work outside the congregation includes chairing the Westchester Coalition on Worldwide Poverty and AIDS and serving on the White Plains School Safety Task Force. She is also on the Board of Trustees for Sheltering the Homeless is Our Responsibility (SHORE) and of the New York Chapter of RCRC. Rev. Huston has an on-going interest in ministerial formation, and is delighted that CUC has become a teaching church to serve as a training ground for ministerial interns. Carol’s husband Hollis is a chaplain for Continuum Hospice Care in New York City. There older daughter Vanessa is a child psychologist in Mississippi, and younger daughter Linnea is a singer and dancer, living in New York City.

Jane Rzepka (Chapter Visits)
Email: jrzepka@uua.org
Business phone: (617) 948-6161

Jane Ranney Rzepka grew up a Unitarian in rural Ohio in the fifties and sixties. After graduating from the University of Michigan and Starr King, she earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley. She was accepted into fellowship in 1976. Jane has served on the MFC, the UUMA Exec (a long time ago), the CENTER Committee, and the Starr King board, among others, and she is the author of the UUA Meditation Manual, A Small Heaven. With Ken Sawyer, Jane taught a preaching course for many years at HDS, and shorter versions at Starr King, Meadville/Lombard, various UUMA chapters, and in various countries-- including India’s Khaisi Hills. Their UU preaching textbook, Thematic Preaching, is widely used. Jane is the senior minister of the Church of the Larger Fellowship in Boston. A fan of sabbaticals, with her family she has trekked in Nepal and in the Amazon, camped off-road with her mother in the Sahara, and traveled widely in India and China. Jane has been married to Chuck since 1970. When the kids were toddlers, bio blurbs would say, “Jane and Chuck are the parents of two energetic boys.” This is still the case.

Fredric Muir (Good Offices)
Email: FredMuir@comcast.net
Business phone: (410) 266-8044

Fred Muir received his M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary (1975) and his D.Min from Wesley Theological Seminary (1993). He began his parish ministry in Sanford, Maine. Since 1984, he has served the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis. His work in the area of safe congregations includes co-editing and contributing to The Safe Congregation Handbook: Nurturing Healthy Boundaries in Our Faith Communities, being a Senior Presenter for CENTER and chairing the UUA’s Safe Congregations Panel. He is a board member of Maryland’s UU Legislative Ministry. He was a co-facilitator of the UUA’s Empowerment Workshop, served on the Joseph Priestley District’s anti-racism team, and served six years on the South-East Regional Sub-committee on [Ministerial] Candidacy. He was the vice-president of the UU Partner Church Council. Fred has worked with the UU Church of the Philippines since 1994. He and Karen have been married for 35 years. They have two children, Kristina (31) and Andrew (27).

Thomas Belote (Publications)
Email: thombelote@yahoo.com
Business phone: (913) 381-3336

Thom Belote has served as the minister of the Shawnee Mission UU Church in Overland Park, KS since 2003. He earned his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School (2003) and a BA in religion from Reed College in Portland, OR (1999). He did his Parish Internship at the Horizon UU Church in Carrollton, TX. Thom has published his own blog since Sept. 2005 (www.revthom.blogspot.com/) after a brief stint as a guest contributor at Philocrites (www.philocrites.com/)