Our Board of Trustees
Our Board of Trustees is the legal body that guides our congregation.
Everyone is welcome to sit in our Board of Trustees Meetings. Please watch our announcements and calendar for the next planned Board of Trustees Meeting.
President: Ivy Chatwin
Ivy Chatwin is new to the UU scene after growing up LDS, where she developed a love of music, study, and people. She can often be found tending to the church's many houseplants or playing outside with her neurospicy family. As Board President, she's hoping to combine the steadying influence of tradition with enthusiastic experimentation to meet quickly-changing needs as our congregation grows.
Vice President: Liz Brackeen
Liz Brackeen has been a Unitarian Universalist since 2001. She and her wife Stephanie Fulton joined UUCBV in 2022. Liz was raised Methodist and was an active member and youth leader at Simsbury (CT) UMC. Currently, Liz is happily serving on the UUCBV Board,co-hosts Silent Meditation and is active with the Food Pantry, Fiber Arts and the Property Team. In her work life, Liz is an early-retired, consumer-health librarian. While culturally christian, Liz is drawn to the wisdom of all the world's religions and has been studying Buddhist teachings for the last nine years. She is happy to be at a UU church with other open-hearted and open-minded beings. In her spare time Liz loves to listen to audiobooks while working in the yard and garden.
Past President: Nicole Rowlette
Secretary: Kraig Farrar
Kraig is an engineer, adventurer, and occasional accidental endurance athlete. He once finished second in a marathon (out of two competitors) and survived a week in Brazil subsisting on foraged mangoes after running out of money. He brings the same spirit of perseverance, questionable planning, and creative problem-solving to everything he does.
Treasurer: Teddy Bass
At-Large Member: Carrie Ahr
At-Large Member: Carolyn Clark
Carolyn Clark has been a member of this church since the mid 1990s and has been active in the life of the church in many ways. She served on two ministerial search committees; she has been a member of the Caring Team for more years than she can count; she served on the Committee on Ministry before it had fixed terms, so she can’t count up those years either, but knows she chaired the COM for at least one year; and she chaired the Worship Committee for two years. She was a member of the Mission/Vision Team, and she has been a Visiting Steward for several canvasses. She co-chaired the Stewardship Drive three times. She has been President of the Board, a Trustee-at-Large, and is again a Trustee-at-Large on the current Board. She has also been active in the UUWF since she began coming to this church and has taken her turn with various leadership roles. She currently co-leads the Meditation Group. She considers herself a Catholic Universalist Unitarian and gratefully counts this church as a vital part of her life where she can make meaning, make connection, and make a difference.
At-Large Member: Bee Phelps
Bee Phelps became a member of the UUCBV in November 2024. Originally from the Texas Panhandle area, she and her husband Chris Phelps have been Bryan residents since 2022. Finding a welcoming and diverse community in Unitarian Universalism, Bee enjoys co-leading the Way of the Earth Study Group and being active in the Fiber Arts community at the church as well. She finds her spirituality labeled best as a Pagan Omnist.
At-Large Member: Meredith Wells
Meredith first came to the UUCBV in 2016 after moving to Bryan from the DC area. She first became interested in the church when looking for the kind of intergenerational community she missed after moving to a new place. As an atheist, joining a church, let alone being on the Board of a church was a very surprising turn of events. Meredith and her husband have now been members of the church for 10 years. She particularly appreciates being able to raise her two kids in an environment that shares her values. Meredith joined the Board so she could continue to help our community grow and make sure it will continue to be a presence in the Brazos Valley community for a long time to come.
