As the proprietor of Wisdom & Wilderness, my professional experience includes university-level teaching, serving as staff at an community organizing alliance, running a non-profit housing organizations, and serving all that is holy as the first female and first queer senior pastor at two congregations in the United Church of Christ (a non-creedal Christian denomination pushing the boundaries of radical inclusion).

So I have spent a lot of time with people in crisis, people who are being actively oppressed, people who are curious, people who are fearful, people who are being born, people who are dying. And I have confronted a great deal of sexism and homophobia in myself and in response to my self.

I have come to understand that all persons are gifted with wisdom and we are part of wilderness, still able to hear creation's song, this creation that is irrevocably climate-changed.

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My formal credentials include

• Certificate, Wilderness First Aid with CPR/AED for Adults, Children, and Infants (Institute for Wilderness & Emergency Medicine)
• Certificate, Forest Therapy Guide (Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides)
• Certificate, Spiritual Director (PrairieFire)
• Masters in Sociology with a focus on health inequalities
• Masters in Divinity with a focus on antiracism
• Clinical Pastoral Education at a tier one trauma center
  

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