Robert Eller-Isaacs (President)
Email: robei@unityunitarian.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.

Marni Harmony (Treasurer)
Email: mharmony@uuma.org
Business phone: (770) 578-1533

Marni Harmony grew up in the Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church and was ordained by that congregation in 1974 after earning a Th.M. at Boston University School of Theology. She later received her D.Min from Columbia Seminary. She has served congregations in State College, PA; Brookfield, WI; and Orlando, FL (from which she is retiring this summer after a 20 year ministry). She has served on the MFC, as a Ministerial Settlement Representative, and (long ago) on the UUA Affirmative Action Committee for Women in Ministry. She’s especially interested in promoting financial well-being for ministers. She lives with her partner Nancy Bauer and is the mother of Kyle (30) and “nina” to his children Asia and Ethan.

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 UUMA: UUMA Executive Committee Member;COM ARAOM (Portfolio Holder); Metro NY UUMA Chapter Good Offices Person. UUA: Nominating Committee Chair; Jubilee World Trainer. She was a co-recipient of the UUA President’s Award for Volunteer Service, 2006. Her daughter (19) is a UU leader. Among the many hats Hope wears is her favorite, “Jova’s Mom.”

Helen Carroll (Arrangements)
Email: helencarroll@hotmail.com
Business phone: (805) 544-1669

Helen Carroll has been minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Luis Obispo County in California since August, 2001. In her tenure with the congregation, the Fellowship has grown in numbers and depth and was recognized as a Breakthrough Congregation by the UUA’s Growth Team in 2006. She is committed to the social justice work of our Association and was one of two UU ministers on the Marriage Equality Caravan in 2004. In addition Helen serves as a Trustee on the Pacific Southwest District Board.

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.

Kathleen McTigue (Chapter Visits)
Email: kmctigue@snet.net
Business phone: (203) 288-1807

Kathleen McTigue graduated from Starr King School for Ministry in 1987. She was ordained in the spring of 1987 by the congregation she served as intern, the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, NY. She has served the Unitarian Society of New Haven, CT as Senior Minister since 1991. From 1987-91 she served as Extension Minister to the UU Fellowship of Winston-Salem, NC. She is an active member of the Clara Barton District UUMA in the role of Good Offices representative. Committed to a number of social justice efforts, she is a member of the Clergy Advisory Group to the UUSC; a co-founder and member of the Steering Committee of Reclaiming the Prophetic Voice (a Connecticut peace group); and on the Advisory Council for the Yale-based Institute for Religion and Politics (IRAP). She is married to Nick Nyhart, who works for campaign finance reform through his leadership of Public Campaign in Washington, DC. They have three children, ages 21, 15 and 13.

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/)