Maine Unitarian Universalist State Advocacy Network Leadership Team
MUUSAN is guided by a dedicated group of justice activists representing a diversity of Unitarian Universalist congregations from across Maine.
MUUSAN Board Members
Betsy Williams, Acting Board Chair, is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, where she is an active member of their Working for Justice Steering Group. A life-long UU with a long and varied career in UU religious education, Betsy brings her passion for making connections between UU values and our everyday lives to social justice work. A former literacy and special education tutor, she works with Midcoast Literacy and Midcoast New Mainers Support Group as an ELL tutor and family support team member. This is Betsy’s first full year as a member of MUUSAN, which she sees as a vehicle for UUs to bend public policy toward valuing human dignity, protecting our democracy, and saving our planet. A nature-lover at heart, Betsy and her husband Glenn are winter condo-dwellers in Brunswick, where she enjoys skiing out her back door, and summer cottage-dwellers on Bailey Island where she enjoys sailing her wooden Turnabout and island hopping in Casco Bay.
Beth Allen is the Executive Director of the Maine Votes/Maine Voices Network.
Rev. Donna Dolham's desire for infusing life with justice fuels her ministry and involvement in the development of collaborative justice work, interreligious education, and dialogue. She is delighted to serve the Unitarian Universalist Community Church in Augusta, Maine. Her prior career as a clinical social work in Midcoast Maine offered Donna an opportunity to develop a specialty working with transgender and gender queer folks and their families. She shares her life with her spouse, Kate, and their two cats. She identifies as a gardener, spouse, cat lover, cis-gender lesbian and uses the pronouns, she, her, and hers.
Michaela Loisel, a 30+ year member of the UUCC of Augusta, co-chairs the Social Justice Committee and serves as a Congregational Legislative Liaison for MUUSAN. She retired from a beloved career in State Government working as a Human Resources Manager with a focus on Equal Opportunity - workplace fairness, equity and accessibility. A native Mainer and long-time resident of Hallowell, Michaela lives with her wife, Angie Blevins, a talented artist and handywoman.
Rev. Marty Pelham is the minister at First Universalist Church in Rockland and the MUUSAN Treasurer.
Marylyn Wentworth, MUUSAN Secretary, is a member of the First Parish UU Church of Kennebunk and is a member of the church Board of Directors. She has been an educator in many capacities since 1963. She was a founder of The School Around Us in 1970, a parent run democratic elementary school where all five of her children attended and most of her 9 grandchildren attend to this day. She was also a founding member of The New School, a democratic high school which focuses on social and environmental justice. She was principal of the school for 18 years. She worked with many national educational coalitions engaged in school reform for 20 years. In her first year of retirement she joined MUUSAN and a group that serves immigrants in Biddeford. She lives in Arundel with her husband Stacy of 58 years, two of her children and their families, and a huge, gorgeous garden.
MUUSAN's Administrative Coordinator
Lacy Simons (she/they) is MUUSAN's part-time Administrative Coordinator. Lacy is the owner + founder of hello hello books, a mission-driven independent bookstore in Rockland. As Lacy transitions away from full-time bookstore work, she's thrilled to be putting time and care into MUUSAN's mission. She and her 10 year-old daughter now live in Central Maine, where they both make weird crafts and subvert gender norms.