Professional and personal activities

 
​The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Armistead Maupin

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Journey Toward Wholeness transformation committee

This is a UUA-wide committee charged with monitoring and assessing,  "the work of the Association toward becoming a genuinely anti-racist, anti-oppressive, 
​multicultural institution."

The committee includes Ben Gabel, Elizabeth Mount, Ted Fetter, Tracey Robinson-Harris, Carrie Stewart, and Janice Marie Johnson, in attendance, and Wendy Von Zirpolo.

City of Portland, Human rights commission

"The Human Rights Commission works to eliminate discrimination and bigotry..." I am especially grateful for brilliant and dedicated colleagues in this work and that of the Community and Police Relations Committee.

Equual Access

EqUUal Access is an organization that serves the needs of autistic Unitarian Universalists and those who are disabled. I am grateful to serve as the vice-president and to work to enable full participation within UU communities and in society at large.

Photo by Nancy Pierce, 2011, Charlotte General Assembly. Marchers turned their banner on its side to offer me shelter from the rain as we returned from an action of public witness in support of marriage equality.

Personal Interests

My favorite practices of self-care and refreshment are all creative. I like to write, both prose and poetry. I enjoy some visual art, including drawing and collage. I love music and dancing, especially Nia, which is a dance class that includes dance forms, martial arts, and healing arts. I also love reading, especially cozy mysteries and young adult novels and dystopian fiction.

Sometimes I collect recent poems into chapbooks.

Getting my Nia White Belt, Studio Nia, Portland, OR