HDS communications reached out to our 2022 graduating students to hear from them in their own words about their experiences at HDS, the people who've helped and inspired them along their grad school journeys, and their plans for the future.
Message of Thanks
Thank you to Professor Charlie Hallisey for teaching me how to read and for letting me play.
Thank you to Professor Saul Zaritt (FAS) for teaching me a way to be Jewish that I knew but didn’t know I knew.
Thank you to Professor Courtney Goto (BU) for demonstrating that play and playfulness can be legitimate objects of theological inquiry.
Thank you to Professor Mark Jordan and Professor Josh Bell (FAS) for encouraging my writing and especially for giving me so much permission to write in my own voice.
Thank you to my CPE Educator Rev. Nancy Wood for teaching me how to walk into a stranger’s hospital room and introduce myself.
Thank you to my family for their support.
Thank you to Sara Klugman for everything.
Thank you to the Buddha and to the centuries of people stewarding and innovating Buddhist traditions for giving me a chance at life.
Thank you to Rowan Van Ness and Caitlyn Tengwall for inviting me on the adventure of a lifetime.
Thank you to Alexa Klein-Mayer for deep collaboration, relational heroics, and joyful edge-work.
Thank you to so many wonderful friends. I’m hesitant to name names as I’m sure I’ll leave dear people out. But if you let me be close to you, know that I appreciated all you taught me. I was not expecting to like the people here.
Honestly, when I decided to come to div school it had not really occurred to me that there would be other people here. Anyway, I’m glad there were.
Future Plans
Oh god, Oh mystery, Oh universe: May there be a future. May I have the time and space to write poems. May I keep playing. May I love well and listen well and go outside a lot. May the practices of my life support me and serve as a benefit for all beings.
In the fall, I’ll be starting my CPE Residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.