Rev. Dr. María Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa
The Rev. Dr. Maria Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa is originally from Chile and has lived in New York, Boston, and recently moved to Hayward, California. She is an ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister and serves the Starr King UU Church in Hayward as their settled Minister. She holds a Th.D. and an M. Div. degree from Harvard… Read More
Dr. Ashley London Bacchi
Dr. Ashley London Bacchi received her doctorate in Jewish History and Culture at the Graduate Theological Union in May 2015 and her Masters at the GTU and SKSM in Cultural and Historical Studies of Religion focusing on Jewish and Christian Traditions in 2010. She is from New York originally and received her BA in Classics… Read More
J. Tyson Casey
Leadership is an action that anyone can practice. My vision is to cultivate just, equitable, and sustainable societies through an approach to learning and teaching that incorporates experiential, academic, somatic, and participatory methods. This vision has nourished over two decades of partnerships with interfaith and secular justice leaders, communities, and organizations in the San Francisco… Read More
Taya Shere
Taya Shere plays passionately in the realms of transformative ritual and embodied vocalization. Taya is co-founder of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, training clergy in embodied, earth-honoring models of spiritual leadership. Her chant albums Wild Earth Shebrew, Halleluyah All Night and Torah Tantrika have been heralded as “cutting-edge mystic medicine music.” Taya is co-author of… Read More
Rev. Tera Klein
Rev. Tera Klein currently serves two ministry positions: part-time UUA Congregational Life Staff and part-time parish minister at Throop UU Church in Pasadena. Tera graduated from Meadville Lombard Theological School in 2010, where her studies focused on eco-feminist theology and justice ministry. Tera has enjoyed long-time connections with the UU Justice Ministry and with Clergy… Read More
Rev. Christopher Schelin
Chris is the Director of Contextual Education. He earned his B.A. in religion and history at Louisiana College and his M.Div. at Duke University. Upon graduating from divinity school, he served as an associate pastor for six years in North Carolina. Chris began working at Starr King in January 2015 after relocating to the Bay… Read More
Rev. Chris Long
Greetings to you all! It is hard now to imagine life before coming to Starr King in the fall of 2005 and all that has transpired since then. Most notably, the life/ministry tools I gained while studying at the school that have fortified my strong belief that Unitarian Universalism does in fact “save lives”. In… Read More
Rev. Dr. Meg Richardson
Rev. Dr. Meg Richardson joined the faculty of Starr King School in 2014 as Visiting Assistant Professor of Unitarian Universalist History. Dr. Richardson, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Durham University, has studied our living tradition in both the United States and Great Britain, and was mentored by scholars including Conrad Wright, James Luther Adams… Read More
Jiwon Chung
Jiwon Chung, past president of the national organization for Theatre of the Oppressed, is the artistic director of Kairos Theater Ensemble and adjunct professor at the Starr King School at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, where he teaches Theater and Social Justice. The focus of his work is in the application of theater as a… Read More
