Leadership Team
Professional Staff
Amy G.S.A. Brooks (sHE/HER)
minister
minister@uuduluth.org
Amy G. S. A. Brooks is a short, fat, queer, disabled, Australian-born immigrant to the United States who loves a good cup of hot tea and hates mornings.
Amy is deeply familiar with grief and trauma. She finds truth and meaning in the liminal spaces where humanity encounters the Divine/Other. She also finds truth and meaning in love, laughter, and in the nerdy world of science fiction. Amy shares her home with her wife, Laurie; and claims kinship with their adult children, assorted members of their chosen family, and numerous pets.
Karen Bauman
music director
music@uuduluth.org
UUCD Music Director Karen Bauman is no stranger to our faith community having led music programming for over 20 years prior to stepping away for awhile. As a credentialed UU musician and holding a Bachelor of Science in Music Therapy from the University of Minnesota she is well versed in the many incredible ways music helps to inspire us on our shared faith journey. Please join in!
Katharine Alworth
director of religious exploration
dre@uuduluth.org
kathy Stinnett (she/her)
congregational administrator
uucduluth@gmail.com
Kathy Stinnett loves the smiling faces she sees at her office door during the week! Kathy has served the UUCD congregation as Administrator since 2004, navigating many transitions (new building! new staff! new board members!) and worlds of previously unexplored technology. She wouldn't have missed it for all the tea in China. In Kathy's previous life (before UUCD), she has worked in various accounting and banking positions in Oklahoma, where she is from originally, and in northern Minnesota, where she moved in 1995 with her husband and daughter. Some people can still discern a little Oklahoma accent when they hear Kathy speaking for the first time. Kathy loves to play clarinet in the Twin Ports Wind Orchestra and sing in the Duluth Superior Symphony Chorus. Her other hobbies include summer gardening and all the time reading mystery novels, and occasionally painting in acrylics. But helping the good, caring, energetic members of UUCD keep the beacon of liberal religion in the Twin Ports bright is one of Kathy's greatest pleasures!
Board of Trustees
Sarah Monahan, Co-President
Russ Mattson, Co-President
David Broadwell, Secretary
Troy Abfalter
Kathleen Culhane
Claudia Faith
Blanche Ebert