During the 2020 lockdowns and time of isolation, people sought joy and connection in new ways. For some of us, that came in companionship with newly found four legged friends. It can sometimes still be a struggle to understand how we might best continue to show up for them and one another. Join us for a service where we learn what it might look like to shift our perceptions to better meet the needs of those beings who are in our care, and we, in theirs.
Cassandra “Cassie” Montenegro is a third year Master of Divinity student at Harvard Divinity School on the Unitarian Universalist ordination track and studying Religion and Literature. While at Harvard, Cassie has served as a Teaching Assistant at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health class on Personal Mastery, as well as a Chaplain Intern for the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life at Harvard Divinity School leading Contemplative Bird Walks. She is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Miami and the First Parish in Cambridge People of Color Caucus. Cassie is a past recipient of the Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley Scholarship from the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation, is a former Harvard Divinity School Billings Preaching Prize Finalist, and a 2021 HDS Convocation Reader. Cassie is actively engaged in scholarship that raises questions about anti-blackness, ancestral spiritualities, and belonging in her Cuban American diasporic community. You can find more of Cassie’s writings in the Skinner House publication Shelter in this Place.