Rev Roger Bertschausen

is the Interim Minister at First Unitarian Society of Madison, Wisconsin, in the United States. He previously served as Senior Minister of the Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Appleton, Wisconsin, for twenty-five years and as Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Council for four years.

 

 

Rev Lara Cowtan

is a second generation UU minister, with dual Swiss and Canadian citizenship who received her Mdiv from Meadville Lombard Theological School in 2017.  An affiliate Minister of the Church of Larger Fellowship, Rev. Lara also served as Secretary for the Executive Committee of ICUU, started the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Basel, Switzerland, and has worked with many Unitarian and UU groups around Europe and the UK. In 2019, Lara returned to her native Canada and is currently serving the first of 3 years as Interim Minister to the Unitarian Church of Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

 

Rev Alicia Roxanne Forde

serves with the Unitarian Universalist Association as the Director of the International Office. Alicia has a passion for engaging individuals and communities in discerning what they most care about and working alongside others as they seek to enact Love and Justice in this world. She has developed a profound appreciation for self-care, grounded leadership/organizational development, and the crucial importance of meaningful connections in establishing sustainable lives.

Alicia was born and spent her formative years in Trinidad and Tobago. She identifies as a Black, queer, cis-gender woman with deep roots in Tobago. She considers herself bi-cultural and is grateful that her formative years enabled her to cultivate a global perspective. Alicia is a certified Spiritual Director and has a strong interest in health and wellness. When she's not hiking, you can find her reading, working-out, or podcast-walking. She is a graduate of The Iliff School of Theology (MDiv ’03) and currently lives with her partner and nephew in Longmont, Colorado.

 

prof. Michal Kohout

Architect, educator and theoretician, director of the Department of Building Science of the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he also sponsors an educational cycle on housing and is in charge of a studio. He is the author and co-author of more than 30 constructed buildings, of which many received awards at competitions of Czech and international architecture. He has also co-authored or co-edited various books and articles on modern Czech architecture and the theory of a developed environment. He is also the sponsor of a number of research projects and an expert on public professional and housing policy.

He is involved in the management of the Unitarian Church as well as in other activities (lectures and publications, expeditions abroad, sharing group). He is the director of the Unitarian Academy.

 

Rev Vlastimil Krejčí

He completed his studies of Religion, Ethics and Philosophy Oriented at Education at the Hussite Theological Faculty, Charles University in Prague. Even before his studies, he has worked in adult education for six years. Personal development and growth is his long-term goal. He attended many seminars, aimed at personal development, as well as a coaching training program.  Presently he serves as a lay minister of the Religious Society of Czech Unitarians and attends to the needs of the Unitarian congregation in Teplice. Both his professional and personal spiritual interests are also realized through his hobby, target archery.

 

Rev Petr Samojský

is a minister of the Religious Society of Czech Unitarians. He received a Master of Divinity diploma from Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago and his Doctor of Ministry diploma from the Chicago Theological Seminary. For a long time he has been involved in the systematic Unitarian education of ministers and lay management and is active in international Unitarian activities. He is the author of numerous studies about N.F. Čapek and early Unitarianism in Czechoslovakia, in English among other languages, and of the books. He lives with his family near Prague, and his hobbies include literature, poetry and music, especially the tradition of the Indian sitar and Pagan chants.