With over forty years of involvement in the church at local, state, and national levels, I’ve gotten to know many of you and this makes me an excellent candidate for the Nominating Committee. I grew up in the village of Elmwood, Massachusetts, and attended the New Church there for many years. I was active in the youth group at the church and attended summer camp at Blairhaven in South Duxbury, Massachusetts. While attending my first church convention in 1979 in Urbana, Ohio, I was elected an officer with the national youth group and maintained my involvement, eventually being the first female elected president of the national youth group (1979–1985). While living in the Boston area, I served as secretary for the Massachusetts New Church Union (1987–1990). For many years, I served on committees at the Fryeburg New Church Assembly in Fryeburg, Maine (2003–2021), where I was recently appointed Camp Librarian. While attending a church convention in 2008 after a bit of a hiatus, I was elected president of the Women’s Alliance, serving a three-year term (2008–2011). In 2014, I was elected to serve on the CSS Board of Trustees (2014–2018). Most recently, I served twelve years on the Library and Documents Committee for the denomination (2010–2022), many of them as chair.
I live in Western Massachusetts with my husband, Trevor Woofenden, and my tuxedo cat Whitney. Trevor and I (and Whitney) attend hybrid worship services with the Fryeburg New Church every Sunday morning from the comfort of our cozy living room. I work as a librarian at a small private college in Springfield, Massachusetts, where I specialize in information literacy and health sciences, and hold a master’s degree in library science from Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts.