Rev. Nancy Palmer JonesThe Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones serves as the Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Church of San José, a congregation with a history of commitment to multiculturalism, perhaps best known for its Spanish Speaking Ministries in 1993--2010. She has helped lead the congregation toward its multicultural vision through worship services, workshops, classes, discussion groups, and more. Prior to her call in 2005, she worked as a freelance book editor and co-edited Soul Work: Antiracist Theologies in Dialogue (Skinner House, 2003) with the late Rev. Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley. Nancy is a founding member of the Pacific Central District’s Racial and Cultural Diversity Network and has co-led numerous antiracism/multicultural trainings.
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Karin LinKarin Lin has been a lay leader in Unitarian Universalist congregations since 2002. A software engineer by profession, she has served as a board president as well as on committees for worship, membership, stewardship, music, strategic planning, and social justice. At First Parish in Cambridge, MA, she chaired the Transformation Team for over three years and promoted the use of Spanish in worship and congregational life. Karin is a member of DRUUMM (Diverse and Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries) and has served on the General Assembly Right Relations Team and the UUA Council for Cross-cultural Engagement. She has led or presented at many workshops on antiracism and multiculturalism at conferences and in congregations.
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As a TeamNancy and Karin bring to this project their own story of cross-cultural friendship and partnership. With their twenty-year age difference and their complementary identities—a settled minister and a lay leader, white European American and Asian American, artist-writer and scientist-engineer—they hope to illustrate the richness of experience that is created from multiple perspectives shared with deep trust.
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