Tamara came to us from West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River, Ohio, where she served her internship and continued as Sabbatical Minister. Growing up in Oklahoma City, she moved to Dallas and pursued a 7-year teaching career in French and Theory of Knowledge in the Garland School’s International Baccalaureate Program. It was in Dallas, at First Unitarian with the Rev. Laurel Hallman, that Tamara discovered Unitarian Universalism, and subsequently, her call to the ministry. She received the Robert Raible Scholarship from that congregation for all four years of her ministerial training.
Meadville Lombard Theological School provided her theological education, and while in Chicago, she completed Clinical Pastoral Education Units at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Stateville Men’s Prison in Joliet.
She has trained in Organizational Development and Executive Coaching at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and the Gestalt International Center. She also holds a certificate from the Graham School for Non-Profit Management at the University of Chicago.
Tamara was awarded the 2006 John Wolf Preaching Scholarship. In August 2006 was hired as the Assistant Minister. In April of 2008, Tamara was called by an overwhelming majority as our Associate Minister and installed in September of that same year.
Most recently Tamara has been busy with partner Jill, raising their first child, Beckett Elizabeth, born in June 2010.