Board of Trustees

Hi! I’m Kate (she/her). I am energized by the opportunity to serve and facilitate the work of the congregation and its Board of Trustees. I’ve been a UUAA member since 2008. I attend on Sundays together with my family, but these days you will rarely find the three of us in the same part of the building. I love this about our congregation and faith tradition. We show up, and we bring so many ways to dwell together in peace, to search for truth in love, to help one another. By bringing all of our many ways with us, over and over, with steadfast commitment to holding love at the center, our community will meet what moments may come.

Prior to Board membership, my most intensive service was on the Ministerial Search Team that worked to bring Rev. Manish’s ministry to UUAA. My other involvement includes: the the Spiritual Growth & Development Committee and various classroom roles; YRUU and TrUU Hope teen advisor roles; the Climate Action | Climate Justice leadership team; the Library Committee; occasional stints with the Chalice Bells; and being organized into many beautiful volunteer, advocacy, and fun moments orchestrated by my fellow UUAA beloveds.

My current professional work is coordinating environmental justice initiatives for the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, & Energy. I have also worked as a librarian at the University of Michigan.

Contact: president@uuaa.org

I’ve been attending the congregation since 2001 when my wife Tricia and I went on what we call our “church crawl” following 9-11. After visiting several local churches, we agreed that UUAA was the place for us. In the ensuing 20-plus years, I have served on the Program Council, the Leadership Development Team, and a senior minister’s committee to develop staff job descriptions. I have also helped plan our annual auction for over a decade. I’ve found at UUAA a spiritual home, and a welcoming community.

Outside of the church, I have been involved for many years with the Michigan Daily and other publications at the University of Michigan, serving recently as chair of the University’s Board for Student Publications. In the world of athletics, I have a passing interest in Michigan football (my volunteer fact checker Tricia Mooney suggests, with some merit, that a more accurate description would be that I have a “fanatical obsession with Michigan football”), and play in an adult hockey league. In my professional life, I practice law with a small firm where my work involves bankruptcy, tax and general business counseling.

I have lived in Ann Arbor since 2002 and have been a regular UUAA attendee since 2008. I have spent much of my time at the UUAA with the Youth Spiritual Growth & Development groups starting in the nursery, later facilitating 8th grade OWL, Coming of Age, and serving the Youth in YRUU. In addition, I supported “Examining Whiteness” workshops as a participant & facilitator.

I attend UUAA with my two children, ages 14 & 16. I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Gender & Women’s Studies and a Master’s of Business Administration, both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. My professional life has included founding and running a non-profit childcare organization, consulting non-profit governance boards, small business owners, and occasionally painting scenery at local theaters.

Joe has been a member of UUAA since 2019. His first service to UUAA was joyfully joining the choir. He signed the Membership Book in March of that year and began serving on the Jackson Social Welfare Fund Committee. The following year he was honored to be asked to serve on Rev. theresa’s Committee on Ministry. He has worked on putting together a lay-led Trans and Non-Binary voices service.

He is passionate about helping us move into the future digitally and socially. As a professional Tech Support person, he is very comfortable with Google Docs and Zoom.

Jeff has been an active member of the UUAA community since moving to Ann Arbor in 1996. Shortly after joining, he participated in the 20s/30s group and has maintained many friendships from that group. He helped form the 2nd Men’s Circle which continues to meet regularly. H also served on the Green Sanctuary committee from 2000-2004 and was a co-chair that helped play a pivotal role in obtaining the Green Sanctuary certification from the UUA.

Jeff has also been very involved in the religious education program, having taught almost every RE/SGD level class from preschool to his current role as a YRUU advisor. He served on the committee previously known as the RE Advisory Committee. Jeff has been on the Nominating Committee (now Leadership Development Team), the Auction committee, helped plan Men’s Retreats and Men’s Dinners, and served a term on the Men’s Council.

Outside of the congregation, Jeff is an engineer, currently working for a manufacturer of medical devices based in Kalamazoo. He enjoys cycling, cross-country skiing, reading, cooking, and playing board games and euchre. His fiancée, Helena, is new to UUAA. Jeff and Helena are getting married in summer, 2022, and look forward to traveling again beginning with a trip to Croatia.

KT ((Katherine)  Doud was born and raised in Ann Arbor where UUAA played a subtle role, being a cool place she would visit with friends. After college and living for almost a decade in Quito, Ecuador, she decided to move back to A2 to raise her three children with the help of her mother, Susie Thompson. KT says, “When my oldest, at six, asked me to please tell her what I believed in so she could just believe that too, I drove straight to UUAA! I knew I needed a community who would support and encourage all of us to explore and find our own beliefs through service and connection. We’ve been attending since 2009, participating actively since 2013 and I finally signed the membership book in 2022!” KT has been heavily involved in the SGD wing as facilitator for 6th, 7th, and 9th grade as well as YRUU; She also served as a member of the SGD committee.

Bill Cerveny has lived in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Connecticut and has lived in Dexter Township since 2002. He has a bachelor of arts from Purdue University in Telecommunications (concentrating in radio, TV, film, and journalism) and a master of sciences in Telecommunications Systems (concentrating in Computer Science) from DePaul University in Chicago.

Professionally, Bill has spent about 35 years around computers and data networking. He has a background in writing and photography. He has an early career background in journalism, broadcast radio and photography.

Bill has been involved with UUAA since 2019 and a member since 2022. He is active within the UUAA men’s council, a men’s circle, and the UUAA Racial Justice Arc.

He always enjoys learning from interviews and conversations. Bill “walks the talk” in supporting inclusiveness and integrity. Bill’s interests include walking, bicycling, kayaking, photography, amateur radio, travel and musical performances. He enjoys the New York Times and NPR radio. Bill has a strong interest in films of all kinds. He has written film reviews and has “rubbed shoulders” with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.

Bill considers creative solutions to problems. He is interested in addressing challenges in a passionate and caring manner and can visualize doing the same within the UUAA board of trustees.

Bill has 3 kids, ranging in age from 25 to 36. His wonderfully supportive girlfriend Holly, has been a 20-year member of the Lima, Ohio UU fellowship and a member of UUAA for several years

Glenn Kime has attended UUAA since 2010 when he began dating Laura Bauman and has been a member for over 10 years. He has served in various roles and groups including Coming of Age Mentor, Sharing Our Collection, Men’s Council, Music Ambassadors, and the Chalice Singers. Laura and Glenn were married in this congregation, where they found community, song, values-in-action, and meaning. Before retirement, Glenn held a variety of roles in Software Development, IT, and Customer Support, as well as running his own IT consulting business.   Glenn enjoys bicycling, reading, punning, and volunteering at the League of Women Voters.