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Rev. Dr. Tracey Robinson-Harris
Rev. Dr. Tracey Robinson-Harris is a Minister of Religious Education. In 2009-2010 she served as a UUA consultant for Ethics in Congregational Life and for JUUST Change Consultancy (an anti racism, anti oppression, multiculturalism resource) She was the Director for Congregational Services at the UUA from July 1, 2002 until June 30, 2009. She joined the UUA staff in November of 1995, when she accepted the position of Deputy Director for Congregational, District and Extension Services.
As Director for Congregational Services (CS), Tracey’s ministry involved program development/leadership and work with CS staff to challenge and support our congregations of all sizes to live up to their potential for ministry in a world so much in need of what Unitarian Universalism has to offer. Congregational Services included resources, programs and consultation in Congregational Stewardship; Congregational Growth and Best Practices; Marketing Outreach; Young Adult and Campus Ministry; Anti Racism, Anti Oppression and Multiculturalism; Ethics and Safety in Congregational Life; Services to Large Congregations.
Tracey came to the staff from a ministry with the Community Church of New York in Manhattan (1988-1995). She also served the First Parish Church in Lexington, MA (MRE from 1983-1988), First Unitarian Universalist Church in Nashville, TN (DRE, 1980-1983) and the First Unitarian Church in Lynchburg, Virginia (DRE, 1977-1980). During these years Tracey served the denomination as a member and chair of the continental Women and Religion Committee, co-author of the religious education curriculum Beyond Pink and Blue (on gender identity for teens), the Hymnbook Advisory Committee (that did preparatory work for Singing the Living Tradition), a member of the Board of the Liberal Religious Educators Association, and a member of the Modified Residency Program Committee (Meadville Lombard).
Her educational background includes Doctor of Ministry and Master of Divinity degrees from Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN and a certificate from the UUA Independent Study Program for Ministry of Religious Education (now the Modified Residency Program of Meadville Lombard Theological School.)
Raised a Southern Baptist, Tracey discovered Unitarian Universalism during high school with the help of a friend and a class in World Religions. When her grandmother died on Easter Sunday in 1971 – she faced a choice. In need of solace and understanding she had to decide whether the Southern Baptist Church could minister to her or whether this newfound faith of Unitarian Universalism was where she should turn. She went to the UU church in Lynchburg that Easter Sunday and found the saving message she was searching for – that deep faith does not require baptism (neither she nor her grandmother were baptized), church attendance (her grandmother never went), and one doctrine (that Jesus is the way) in order to be real and meaningful, that eternal life is ours as we live on in the lives and hearts of those whom we touch with our lives and our love.
Tracey’s husband, the Rev. George Robinson, died in 2002. She has two stepdaughters, Lenora and Jennifer. She lives in Ashby, MA in an 1860’s New England farmhouse in the center of town that was the parsonage for the First Parish Church. She enjoys restoring and remodeling her old house, hiking in Yellowstone National Park especially when wolf watching is involved, traveling in Alaska. She loves ballroom and latin dancing, and competes regionally and nationally when she can.