Chesapeake UUMA Chapter Meeting (On-line and In-person)

Wednesday, April 24 2024, 10:00am - Noon ET

River Road UU Congregation, 6301 River Road, Bethesda, MD 20817

Zoom information posted on the Chesapeake Chapter Page

Dr. Paula Cole Jones will be our special guest. Among other things, we will hear about her experience as a member of the Article II Study Commission and discuss the road ahead for the Commission’s proposal. 

Dr. Paula Cole Jones, (2020-2023) is a member of All Souls Church Unitarian, Washington, D.C., a life-long Unitarian Universalist and a Management Consultant with over twenty years of experience in designing and facilitating workshops and dialogues for leaders and organizations. She is an innovator of institutional change. In 1999, Paula founded ADORE, A Dialogue on Race & Ethnicity. She has conducted hundreds of group discussions and workshops across the country for faith organizations, community groups and government agencies. Her work includes being a leader in advancing the 8th Principle and the Community of Communities as practices for the Beloved Community.

Paula is the author of a UU World Magazine cover story, Reconciliation as a Spiritual Discipline. She is also the editor of a Skinner House book, Encounters: Poems about Race, Ethnicity and Identity and a contributing author to three Skinner House books. Recently, her home congregation established an annual award in her name, The Paula Cole Jones Transformation Award, and honored her as the inaugural recipient. In 2022, Paula was recognized with an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Meadville Lombard Theological School.

ZOOM ROOM FOR ALL CHAPTER MEETINGS can be found on the Chesapeake Chapter (CUUMA) web page on the UUMA website.