Alum News

Carrie Kreps Wegenast (G-ETS 2004) began a new role as chaplain supervisor with Tyson Foods.

Tina Itson (G-ETS 2005) started a new position as development director at ACLU of Wisconsin.

Adrienne Stricker (G-ETS 2009) started a new position as research assistant with the Christian Parenting and Caregiving Initiative at Rio Texas Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church.

Ju Yeon Jeon (G-ETS 2011) was selected as the vice president and secretary of the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women's Board of Directors.

Emily Heitzman (G-ETS 2012) started a new position as campus and community resource coordinator at National Louis University in Chicago.

Tiggs Washington (G-ETS 2015) was appointed presiding elder of the Milwaukee District of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and pastor of Bray Temple in Chicago.

Carla Mitchell (G-ETS 2016) was appointed pastor of Bradford Memorial AME Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Katie Steele (G-ETS 2016) began as staff chaplain – palliative care at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

Kit Evans-Ford (G-ETS 2017) was named an Invest Faith Fellow by Invested Faith. Fellows receive a $5,000 unrestricted grant and an invitation to tell their story through the Invested Faith community and website.

Neichelle Guidry (G-ETS 2017) launched Black Girl Black Coffee, brewing a new community of Black girls and womxn who love coffee (www. blackgirlblackcoffee.com).

Brooke N. Peterson (G-ETS 2017) recently published Religious Trauma: Queer Stories in Estrangement and Return (Lexington Books, 2022). Using self-psychology to understand the depth of trauma experienced in non-accepting communities, the book explores the experience of God and sexual identity within non-accepting communities.

Laura Kraybill (G-ETS 2018) started as co-pastor at Reba Place Church.

Gloria Feliciano Feltman (G-ETS 2019) started a new position as social worker at Loyola University Chicago Wellness Center and launched a private practice called Heartfelt Counseling Chicago.

Kate Hanch (G-ETS 2020) recently published Storied Witness: The Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19th-Century America (Fortress Press, 2022). The book conducts a careful reading of the narratives of 19th-century Black women preachers Zilpha Elaw, Julia Foote, and Sojourner Truth and their texts, both written and spoken, to make explicit their theology.

Debi VanDenBoom (G-ETS 2020) is serving as a therapist at Center(ed) On Wellness in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

Sara Miller (G-ETS 2022) started a new position as associate pastor of youth at Orange United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Patrick Strand-Prewit (G-ETS 2022) started a new position as therapist at Cathedral Counseling Center in Chicago.