We’re celebrating 60 years of justice advocacy, and you’re invited to the party!
 
Join us for a special leadership panel discussion with women from all parts of our association:

•   Rev. Dr. Susan Frederick-Gray, Current UUA President
•   Rev. Dr. Leonisa Ardizzone, Interim Co-Director with the UU Ministry for Earth
•   Rev. Sara Green, Youth and Young Adults Program Manager with the UUA
•   Rev. Ranwa Hammamy, Congregational Justice Organizer with Side With Love 

The panel will share their perspective on the UUWF's priority issues:  Women & Work, Stopping Violence Against Women, Women's Health, and Women & Poverty. You won’t want to miss this gathering of phenomenal minds. Because you're one of them!

This program is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Pacific / 5:30 p.m. Mountain / 6:30 p.m. Central / 7:30 p.m. Eastern

Auto captioning and live Spanish translation will both be available.

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The Rev. Dr. Susan Frederick-Gray began her six-year term as president of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) in June 2017. As president of the Association, she is responsible for administering staff and programs that serve its more than 1,000 member congregations. She also acts as principal spokesperson and minister-at-large for the UUA. Susan brings a strong focus on mission and strategic planning to her leadership at the UUA as it works to dismantle systems of white supremacy. As president, Susan has emphasized that this is no time for a casual faith and no time to go it alone. She has represented the UUA in the 2017 Charlottesville protests against white nationalist violence, has worked in conjunction with the Poor Peoples Campaign on issues of poverty, witnessed at the US-Mexico border for immigrant justice, and partnered with local advocates to expand voting rights in Florida. In addition to her regular column in UU World, Susan has written for Vice, Sojourners and numerous local papers.

The Rev. Ranwa Hammamy (they/she) is the Congregational Justice Organizer with the UUA's Organizing Strategy Team, where they support congregations in developing sustainable, faith-rooted justice ministries aligned with the Side with Love Campaigns intersectional justice priorities. She previously served as the Executive Director of the UU Justice Ministry of California and as a hospital & elder care chaplain. Rev. Ranwa currently resides in Oakland, California, and is a community minister affiliated with Mt. Diablo UU Church in Walnut Creek, California.

Rev. Dr. Leonisa Ardizzone is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister. She holds a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary and an Ed.D. in Peace Education from Columbia University’s Teachers College. {Additional degrees include BA in Biology (Ithaca), Ed.M in Science Education (Western Washington), M.A. in Comparative Education (Teachers College).} Rev Leonisa specializes in Buddhist, interfaith, anti-oppression, and earth-based spiritual work. She served as the Intern Minister at the UU Fellowship of Poughkeepsie (2017-2019) and served as the minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills in Kingston, NY (2019-2021). Rev Leonisa’s current Community Ministry includes her work with Vassar College, the Kingston Interfaith Council, and the Peace Education Center of the Hudson Valley. She is currently an Affiliate Minister with The Fourth Universalist Society in the city of New York.

Sara Green here—your youth and young adults program manager. I am a southern, cis/queer/poly, Black femme minister living near Nashville, TN. I imagine liberation/salvation/beloved community as communities that have the ability to eat good food together, experience pleasure in our bodies and regularly put their hands in soil—all the while free from fear and violence by way of all of the cultural and legal changes that must happen in order for this world to exist. I understand myself as part of a legacy of cultural workers, healers, maroons and creoles, southern queer freedom fighters and artists trying to shape god. And I feel so blessed to be doing this work now. Auto captioning and live Spanish translation will both be available.