About the Author - JeKaren Olaoya

JeKaren Olaoya (she/her) is the Learning Fellow for Worship and Prison Ministry at the Church of the Larger Fellowship and serves our Unitarian Universalist faith as a member of the UUA Board of Trustees.

She is a proud graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry with a Chaplaincy concentration and a candidate for UU Ministry.

Her ministry exists at the powerful intersection of ancestry, healing, justice, liberation, and creative expression, grounded in love. She is a grief and death doula, author of All The Pieces Fit, a Book of Collage Poems and the founder and owner of Art Spirit Heal, where she offers art-based spiritual guidance to individuals and groups.

JeKaren is a Macon, Georgia native and lives with her sweet doggo Maysee Moon.