The Rev. Dr. Kathleen A. Rudoff is a humanist celebrant and chaplain; currently serving as minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury, Connecticut. Kathleen previously served on the Board of Directors, and then as Executive Director, of the Yale Humanist Community. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Thomas Edison University in New Jersey, her Master of Divinity degree from Meadville-Lombard Theological School in Chicago, and her Doctor of Ministry in Multifaith Studies from New York Theological Seminary where she was the only non-theist student! Her doctorate dissertation focused on collaboration between humanists and religious adherents.
Kathleen is a former member of the Center for American Progress’s Faith and Reproductive Justice Leadership Institute, served on the board of the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey, and has written for the Journal of Religious Humanism, as well as authored a series of daily meditation journals and a children’s book of humanist reflections on gratitude. Kathleen is currently part of the teaching faculty at Claremont Lincoln University in California, and is a certified positive psychology practitioner.
