When not at UniLu, youth coordinator Whittney Barth is the assistant director of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, she interned with the Interfaith Youth Core and the Abrahamic Program for Young Adults at the Chautauqua Institution. She has been involved at University Lutheran in multiple capacities prior to her current position, including as the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter field worker (2008-09), as an assisting minister, and as a mentor in the pre-confirmation program. She is very excited for the opportunity to walk alongside the young people of the congregation as we challenge one another to grow in our knowledge of our own calling and our tradition, exploring deeply what it means to be a person of faith today.

In addition to serving as UniLu's parish administrator, Jayms Battaglia served as youth group advisor for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading, Massachusetts for several years. In her free time, she enjoys time with friends, cooking, reading, good coffee, and bookstores. Jayms is also an accomplished photographer.

Rev. Cindy Jacobsen, who joined the UniLu staff as interim pastor in August 2011, comes to us most recently from KW Counselling Services in Kitchener, Ontario, where she served as director of training, supervising counseling interns. Prior to that, she served in three parishes located in Canada and the USA. Her degrees include a doctor of ministry in pastoral care and counseling from Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, an MDiv from Luther Seminary, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

Our Sunday School director, Amy Kremer, has a masters degree in elementary education from Lesley University and is a teacher at the Lesley Ellis School in Arlington. Prior to becoming a teacher, she practiced law for many years, specializing in child welfare law and adoption. She enjoys spending time with her husband, Taylor, and their two children, Emily and Jeremy. She also enjoys walking, gardening, reading, baking, and spending time with friends.

Before coming to UniLu in 2004, Rev. Donald S. Larsen served as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Hartford, Connecticut, and as adjunct professor of Greek at Hartford Theological Seminary.

Kevin O'Brien, sexton, is an Irish music enthusiast who plays both Uilleann pipes and fiddle. He has been active in the local Irish music scene for 30 years.

Alissa Oleson, Young Adults and Graduate Students coordinator, was the intern chaplain for 2010-11 for Lutheran Campus Ministry at Boston University. Alissa grew up in Michigan and attended Capital University, where she majored in Biology and Religion. The following year she served with Lutheran Volunteer Corps in Wilmington, Delaware, working with the education program at the local neighborhood center. Most recently she worked as the program director for an outdoor ministry site (Agapé † Kure Beach Ministries) in North Carolina. She enjoys running or hiking, baking (and eating) treats, playing Bananagrams, and visiting friends.

John Paulson, UniLu's music director, has conducted and taught choral music at Lesley University and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

A native of Nebraska, Rev. Imogene Stulken, our organist, is an ordained ELCA pastor, serving as Protestant Campus Minister at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she is co-director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Institute (PACSI), affiliate of the Center for Women and Work and coordinator of its Annual Gathering at the Well Forum, advisor of the Student Veterans' Organization, and convener of the "Last Lecture" Series. Before ordination she taught elementary-general music in the Cambridge Public Schools and was the organist and choir director at Christ Lutheran Church in Belmont. She enjoys morning prayer walks, making music with her husband Bruce Brolsma, and co-parenting their daughter Kerstin.