I came to First Parish in 2011 as an RE second grader. When I became a member at seventeen, I was chaplain of FP’s youth group and served on the UUA Board of Trustees as a representative of our faith’s vibrant youth communities. Now I teach RE, recently graduated with a religious studies bachelors, and I’m starting at Harvard Divinity School in the fall. I want to give back to this community, which helped raise me. If elected, I’d bring the perspective of a former FP RE student and a current UU seminarian to the committee, along with a deep investment in the futures of First Parish and our larger faith.