Our Staff

Elizabeth Nguyen is our Ministerial Intern. Elizabeth is a student, activist, and writer. She is presently preparing for Unitarian Universalist ministry at Harvard Divinity School where she is beginning her second year. She calls Minnesota, Ohio and Tennessee home. She has been a Unitarian Universalist since the second grade and worships (when she can) at Miami Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Dayton, Ohio.

Elizabeth is a graduate of Carleton College with a BA in African and African American Studies. During her college years she served on the Council for Religious Understanding, studied abroad in Windhoek, Namibia and Cholula, Mexico and worked at Carleton’s Gender and Sexuality Center. She is trained as a facilitator for the Young Adult and Adult Our Whole Lives sexuality education curriculum and serves on the planning team for the Lucy Stone Cooperative, an affordable housing cooperative dedicated to Unitarian Universalist values. For the past four years Elizabeth has been engaged in the work of the Alternatives to Violence Project. She presently facilitates non-violence workshops through AVP at Northeastern Correctional Center.

Elizabeth most recently worked as a field education intern at Catholic Charities Boston in their office of Refugee and Immigration Services providing case management for Iraqi and Afghani refugees. She recently completed a summer unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Massachusetts General Hospital where she serves as an oncology chaplain.

Elizabeth believes that ministry is inextricable from justice and gets excited about liberation, communities organizing and creative non-fiction writing. She cares about antiracism, healthy sexuality education, modern dance, dialogue across difference, and that rare and elusive thing called free time.

Elizabeth lives in Somerville with three housemates and two cats.