People Notes - March 2021

Dozens of scholars around the world congregated on Zoom for a Festschrift in honor of YDS Dean Greg Sterling, a Philo of Alexandria scholar who for more than two decades has co-edited the Studia Philonica Annual.

View a gallery of images from the event.

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St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York honored Kerry Alys Robinson ’94 M.A.R. with its Loyola Medal at an awards event and celebration of women on March 11. Ms. Robinson gave a lecture titled “New Voices, New Talents: Time for New Roles for Women in the Church?”

Watch a video of the event.

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Leroy Perry ‘74 M.Div., Pastor of St. Stephens AME Zion Church in Branford, Conn., was featured by Yale Medicine for his role as a Yale Cultural Ambassador advocating for health equity and clinical research participation, most recently around COVID-19 vaccine trials.

Read the article.

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YDS/Berkeley alumnus Stephanie Chase Bradbury ’95 M.Div. was welcomed as Interim Priest at Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Wakefield, Mass.

Learn more.

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George Chochos ’16 M.Div., ‘17 S.T.M., Senior Government Affairs Associate at the Vera Institute of Justice and a Ph.D. student at Georgetown, has been named a recipient of Georgetown’s Patrick Healy Graduate Fellowship.

Learn more about George Chochos’ work at Vera.

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Christopher Carlisle ‘82 M.Div. has published a new novel, For Theirs is the Kingdom, based on his experience doing outdoor ministry in western Massachusetts. 

Learn more.

March 15, 2021