Alex Kapitan is from the Transforming Hearts Collective, and led our service in honor of Transgender Visibility Day.

You can read more about Alex at https://www.uua.org/offices/people/alex-kapitan and https://www.transformingheartscollective.org/leadership

Dolores is the Lifespan Faith Formation Director here at First Parish

Ken Langer is our intern minister for the 2022-2023 year. He is in his final year of study at the Starr King School for the Ministry. 

Before he joined seminary he was a college music professor and is still an active composer and writer, with books on games, music theory, and spirituality. He currently lives in Maynard and enjoys sailing and kayaking when not just out walking in nature. 

The Reverend Ellen Rowse Spero has served as our minister since August, 2002.

Ellen is a graduate of Brandeis University, University of Maryland (with an M.Ed in Special Education) and Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. She has served as the Assistant Minister at the First Parish in Lexington, MA, and as the Interim Minister at Hope United Church of Christ in Alexandria, VA. Before entering the ministry, she was a special education teacher in Alexandria, Virginia. She grew up as a Unitarian Universalist, attending the First Church Unitarian in Littleton, MA.