MUUSAN 2018-19 Issue Group Co-Chairs
Maine UU State Advocacy Network focuses our legislative ministry on four primary issues: 1) Democracy in Action, 2) Health Care for All, 3) Climate Change, and 4) Racial, Native, and Immigrant Justice, each of which has an Issue Group of volunteers. Two co-chairs lead each Issue Group to gather and mobilize Maine UUs who are especially interested in helping to create progress on the target issue.
Please meet our Issue Group Co-Chairs for 2018-19. Not only do they bring strong experience in the Maine State Legislature and expertise on their chosen issue, they are passionate UU social justice leaders in Maine. We thank them for their leadership for our UU Principles in action!
Brief in-person Issue Group meetings for updates and strategizing happen at most MUUSAN Network meetings (2nd Saturday of alternate months in Augusta). Other, more detailed Issue Group meetings rely on ZOOM videoconferencing and telephone to include UUs across Maine's vast geography.
Please meet our Issue Group Co-Chairs for 2018-19. Not only do they bring strong experience in the Maine State Legislature and expertise on their chosen issue, they are passionate UU social justice leaders in Maine. We thank them for their leadership for our UU Principles in action!
Brief in-person Issue Group meetings for updates and strategizing happen at most MUUSAN Network meetings (2nd Saturday of alternate months in Augusta). Other, more detailed Issue Group meetings rely on ZOOM videoconferencing and telephone to include UUs across Maine's vast geography.
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
Peter Lehman is a member of the First UU Church in Rockland.
Andi Parkinson is a member of the UU Church Augusta.
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL
Rev. Margaret Beckman is the minister of the UU Congregation of Castine.
Deborah Crump is a member of the UU Church of Norway.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Melanie Lanctot, retired from the Maine Geological Survey, describes herself as "a tree-hugging, silver-sneakered lover of planet Earth" and a drawing enthusiast. A nature photographer, Melanie is also a Maine Master Naturalist, part of a network of certified citizen-naturalist volunteers. Close-up photographs of some of Melanie's favorite subjects, some so tiny they are easy to overlook, but all marvelous in their unique beauty and intricacy, can be viewed at the UU Community Church of Augusta where she is a member.
Jill Linzee is a member of Midcoast UU Fellowship of Damariscotta.
RACIAL, NATIVE, AND IMMIGRANT JUSTICE
Jane Makela is a member of the First Universalist Church of Yarmouth.
Rev. Christina Sillari is the minister of the First Parish Church in Portland, Maine, UU.
