Vol 5. Iss. 2: Contributors

Willie Baptist is the Scholar-in-Residence for the Poverty Initiative. He is also Education Director for the Kensington Welfare Rights Union.

Currently a first-year PhD student in Psychiatry and Religion, Lizzie Berne was a chaplain at a trauma center in Jamaica, Queens, before coming to Union.

Colleen Birchett is a first-year MDiv student. Her major interest and background is in curriculum writing.

Marisol (Mari) Caballero is a secondyear MDiv student on the ordination track for Unitarian Universalist ministry. She enjoys long walks on the beach with the wind in her hair and dolphins laughing at her heels.

Second-year MDiv Andrea Davis has interests in arts and ministry. She is hoping, more than anything, for some sort of employment after graduation.

Miguel Angel Escobar is a first-year MDiv student from San Antonio, Texas. He’s the one with curly hair.

Hannah Giffin is a first-year MDiv student interested in biblical studies, religious dialogue, and worship. She likes to read long 19th-century novels for fun, particularly those by George Eliot.

Justin Latterell, originally from Colorado, is a first-year MDiv.

Jeremy D. Posadas is a second-year MDiv student. He was raised in one evangelical tradition, and now practices in another.

Regina Shin is a second-year MA student concentrating in Theology and the Arts.

Lidya Tandirerung, STM student, is an ordained minister of the Toraja Church, a Reformed church in Indonesia. She holds the principle that “a smile is a therapeutic action for social illness” (whether people respond or not!).

John Wessel-McCoy, a country boy from Illinois, wouldn’t be here at Union if he hadn’t met and married Colleen Wessel-McCoy. He’s co-founder of the YPTCIPTG caucus and proud father of Marx the Cat.

Michelle Wiltshire-Clement is a parttime MDiv student, and one of the few people who combines scientific and poetic vocations.