I have many years of experience as an educational program designer and developer, functioning as the facilitative leader of many different kinds of creative teams in urban and rural
settings, public schools and universities, parks, regional communities and neighborhoods. Always challenging, the work has been a journey that has brought me great joy!

My formal training is in theater and integration of the arts. This training and my subsequent work has always been anchored in a belief that each of us is born with creative potential; that it is a human right to develop that potential; human growth and learning is a creative process. In my
belief system that individual creative potential can be thought of as the Divine within us.

I have done a lot of writing in my professional life: proposals, reports, books for children and adults. Since retirement from a day job I have enjoyed writing for myself, primarily poetry.

After retirement from the Office of International Programs at Alamo Colleges in San Antonio (2015), I was free to expand my interest in the potentials of faith based communities working together for a more inclusive, socially responsive world. I became an elder at my home church in San Antonio, University Presbyterian Church, and worked with their Interfaith Welcome Coalition initiative, visiting south Texas detention centers to support women and child refugees.
Our work supported these women as they coped with the asylum process, legal support to tell their stories, and finding their families in a new country. I also had the honor to design and facilitate a symposium with many community partners, held at our church — "Welcoming the Stranger, Rethinking Immigration."

When I first moved to Austin, (summer, 2016), I looked for a faith community that had certain qualities of community and a collection of individuals that would feed me ( spiritually, socially and cognitively). I visited many different churches the first year.

I found a faith home in Unity of Austin. I was drawn initially by good music that threaded the different parts of the service together. I still love that aspect of Unity today, though now a
different group of musicians. Even deeper, I found a lovely, diverse group of individuals, committed to their own spiritual
growth and the growth of the faith community as a whole.

I have experienced a dedicated core of people, working together through a creative loving spirit, bringing this spiritual community into New Light. I have been enriched by the many creative ministries ( book groups, Spirit Journey Writers, Sound Bath, Workshops, etc) that feed my soul and have met other folks from different backgrounds also on a journey, trying out and refining new pathways and experiences for spiritual growth!

I am the proud mom of three children and three grandchildren.