Karen joined our staff in late 2013 trading in a busy corporate environment for our much quieter church office.

Michele Hatchell (she/her) is a passionate educator, artist, and national expert on queer and trans justice in schools and workplaces. With over 30 years of experience working with children and adolescents—including 23 years as an elementary school teacher and 17 years as an early college teacher at UW Madison—she blends creativity, compassion, and policy expertise to…

Sam Yulsman is a pianist, composer and theorist with roots in a wide array of experimental music and jazz lineages. Sonic inquiry into collectively improvised limits is at the heart of his work, as is the process of close collaboration. As a pianist he has worked closely with Jessie Cox, Roman Filiu, Brandon Lopez, Chris Corsano, Anaïs Maviel,…