Sara Elizabeth (she/they) is a 2022-20223 Hilda Mason Teaching Fellow. They identify as a queer, Southern, white, neurodivergent femme with a flair for the dramatic. Sara Elizabeth holds an undergraduate degree from Salem College in Women’s Studies with a concentration in Advocacy. Born and raised in Texas, Sara Elizabeth stumbled into Unitarian Universalism while living… Read More
Jennifer Springsteen
Jennifer Springsteen is an educator and a writer. She has taught high school literature, service-learning and civic engagement to teachers and administrators, and co-founded PDX Writers, a literary arts organization teaching and coaching writers. Her philosophy is that every person is a writer, and every writer deserves a safe environment in which to experiment, learn, and… Read More
Lauren Martinez
Lauren (they/them) is a current Starr King School for the Ministry 3rd year student pursuing both their MASC and Masters of Divinity degrees. They received their BA in Psychology and Biology from Denison University in Granville, OH, and grew up in Southern, OH (Cincinnati); the land of the Miami Peoples, one of the many indigenous nations… Read More
Leora Cockrell
Leora (she/they) grew up on Wopumnes-Nisenan-Mewuk land in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California. Leora identifies as a white, disaporic, genderqueer, Jewish, rurally-raised settler. Leora received their bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Agriculture and minor in Gender Studies at UC Davis. After working in the food system for five years and experiencing spiritual… Read More
Juniper Kilpatrick
Juniper Kilpatrick (they/them) is the 2020-2021 Hilda Mason Teaching Fellow. Their mission in life is to create a world free from abuse. Their passionate lifelong journey has been to learn about healthy relationships and community and to share that with others. As an avid anarchist, they believe that it is our work to create the… Read More
André “Dragon” Little
Born in Mountain View, California, Dragon (aka André Pardee Little) is a highly-melanated, male-bodied, autochthonous student of history, nature, art, social justice, and holistic health. His pedigree has traceable roots as long as pre-colonial America and his pride is as wide as all the diverse skin and experience of every continent that his ancestors still… Read More
Meg McGuire
Meg McGuire is a 2019-2020 Hilda Mason Teaching Fellow and a candidate for Unitarian Universalist ministerial fellowship. Her lifelong UU faith inspires her commitment to spiritually grounded education and movement toward collective liberation. Shaped by her experience with anti-oppression organizing and facilitation, as well her academic background in feminist, queer and critical theory, her teaching… Read More
Ariel Aaronson-Eves
Ariel Aaronson-Eves is a third year MDiv student and an aspirant for UU ordination. Prior to enrolling at Starr King she spent six years working in the fields as a farmer, experiencing everything from isolated cattle ranches to urban educational farms, growing everything from fish to flowers. As she worked the land with her body… Read More
Dr. Isabel Call
Dr. Isabel Call is an economist and participatory methodologist working towards economic and environmental justice. Hailing from east Tennessee, she has lived in cooperative communities in the Sacramento area, Seattle, Indonesia, and northeast Ohio, and brings to her work a passion for investment in local communities and bridge-building between them. Her research has focused on… Read More
Dr. Alexa Fraser
Alexa Fraser is a 3rd year Starr King student, pursuing an MDiv and UU ordination. She is a former Quaker. She volunteers as a community mediator in her home county and has recently completed Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. She has a PhD in Environmental Studies and cares… Read More
