Geri Kennedy

Geri has served on the ICUUW Board of Directors as its treasurer since June 2018. A UU for about 30 years, she is a member of the East Shore Unitarian Church in Bellevue, WA. Before her retirement, Geri spent 25 years managing homeowners’ associations, partly in a company of her own.

In the early ’90s, she got involved with the Pacific Central District’s Women & Religion Task Force, serving as its co-convener and then its treasurer. Geri was the UU Fellowship of Redwood City’s bookkeeper for about 15 years and is a former board member of UUPCC and current board member of Continental UU Women & Religion.

Denise Tracy

Denise Tracy was ordained in 1974. At that time she was the eighth woman employed in ministry in the UUA. She has had ministries on campus, in the parish (Lansing, MI 76-84), UUA District Executive (Central Midwest, 84-92), Consultant for 17 years and an Interim for 3 churches, before she retired. She was on the original Women and Religion Committee, which heavily influenced the 1985 revision of the UUA Principles and Purposes. She has written 6 books, 4 books with intergenerational stories for worship, 2 on Feminism in the UUA. WomanSpirit, which was published last year, traces the growth of feminism and women’s leadership within the UUA from 1974-1990. She currently serves as a Chaplain at a Level I trauma hospital north of Chicago. Denise has had breast cancer twice and this year she will do the Komen Walk for the third time. She is married and has 3 children and 3 grandchildren.

Erika Orban

Erika Orbán is a trained Unitarian minister from Transylvania, living in Budapest since 2012. She has also studied social work and mental health, and over the years, she has worked as a religious educator, community minister, and chaplain in a large hospital in Sepsiszentgyörgy/Sfântu Gheorghe (Romania). She led several support groups for cancer patients and their family members – and also for helping professionals prevent burnout. She is familiar with UUism in the US, as she was a Balázs scholar at Starr King School for the Ministry (Berkeley, CA; too many years ago...). They also lived in Washington, DC, for several years through her husband's work.

Since moving to Budapest, she's been working for an institute supporting the Hungarian minorities within the Carpathian basin, outside of Hungary (Research Institute for National Strategy). She's a dedicated mental health counselor, working with individual clients and teaching related courses (healing conversations, case studies, and mental health projects) at Károli Gáspár Reformed University. Erika is an active member of the largest Unitarian Church in Budapest, being a member of the board of trustees, too. It is a great joy for her to give sermons, by substituting for her colleagues every once in a while. She participated actively in the first, third, and fourth ICUUW Convocations.

Mária Zsuzsánna Bartha

Zsuzsanna Bartha graduated from Kolozsvár Seminary in 1996. Since then, she has served as a Unitarian minister in several congregations: Kénos, Mészkő, and the North West Diaspora in Románia. Since 2012, she has been the minister in Kocsord, Hungary.

Zsuzanna studied at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago, summer Seminary 1997, and Starr King School for Ministry 2001/2002.

She has been involved in UNOSZ, the Unitarian Women's Association of Transylvania, since 1997 and currently serves MUNOSZ, the Unitarian Women's Association in Hungary, as its president. Her involvement in ICUUW has included attending the Convocations in Marosvásárhely, Asilomar (California) and Kolozsvár.

She is married and the mother of 3 boys.

Elgiva Dora Shullai

Ms. Shullai has been actively participating in various Unitarian Church activities in Meghalaya, India, since childhood. She is a registered Nurse specializing in Surgical Nursing and served as an Officer with the prestigious Armed Forces Medical and Nursing Services until 2011. Now she is actively supporting philanthropic work and is active with the Seng Kynthei (women's organization) of the Unitarian Union, North East India. In this capacity, she has coordinated health camps, awareness programs, and very successful Global Sisters workshops in four Unitarian communities in Meghalaya (Kyrdem, Padu, Kharang, and Puriang). A number of years ago she organized the launch of a White Ribbon campaign to eliminate violence against women and children in Unitarian communities in North East India.

Beth O’Connell

Beth O'Connell served on the ICUUW board for two terms. She is a retired journalist who has moved back to the U.S. after living and working in Europe for 21 years. She was a member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Paris (UUFP) and the Unitarian Universalists in Europe (EUU), focusing on social action.

She participated in ICUUW’s pilgrimage to Bolivia in 2015, the Asilomar Convocation in 2017 and the  most recent Convocation in Transylvania in September 2024. She remains active in several ICUUW committees including UN Advocacy. She is a member of the UU Congregation of Monmouth County in New Jersey.