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POLICIES
Board of Trustees
President – Beth Cliff (2026)
Beth has been an involved member since April 2019 after having moved from a UU congregation outside of Boston. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees, sings in various choirs, is active at the Beardsley School and serves on its Committee, knits with the Shawl Ministry, and has offered Adult Faith Formation programs, such as a public discussion on Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal. In the past she managed Communications and PR for the congregation, while also taking on leadership roles in Membership and Year ‘Round Stewardship.
Beth and her husband Gordon raised their family as UUs in Massachusetts; earlier she was an active lay leader and choir member in various Congregational and Presbyterian churches. A graduate of Princeton University with an MBA from UVA, she and Gordon are both retired from various corporate and consulting positions, and live in Easton. Their two adult daughters Lorraine and Helen are in London and DC respectively.
Vice- President – Ravi Sankar (2026)
Ravi grew up in India in a Hindu household that held fairly secular views, and was exposed to multiple religious faiths in India. He became a member of TUCW in 1994, and has been an active member since then: he spent over 6 years running RE classes; is a certified instructor of OWL; spent 20+ years leading classes on Hinduism; has been an active participant in social justice programs, and a member of the Finance, Immigration and Membership Committees. Ravi has been a Pastoral Chaplain since its inception. Professionally, Ravi has over 30 years in Operations, Consulting and Technology working on domestic and international projects. and is currently employed as the Director of Digital Transformation at Wipro. He is married to Sudha Sankar, with two adult daughters, Amrita and Shrutika, who grew up in the church.
Teasurer – Jon Gage (2027)
Jon Gage first attended UU with his family growing up in Amherst, Mass. He and his wife, Leigh, who met and lived in Paris for 18 years, began attending TUUCW after moving to Westport in 2010. Jon was especially drawn to the Congregation’s commitment to social justice action. He has been active in UU/CIRI refugee and immigrant support efforts, the Social Justice Council, Voices Cafe, the Tech Team, and the Garden and Grounds Committee.
Jon graduated from Brandeis University and worked as a journalist in the U.S. and abroad for much of his career. He remains engaged with public-interest journalism as board president of the nonprofit news outlet NancyOnNorwalk.com and as a member of the Overseas Press Club.
Jon enjoys playing guitar, kayaking, biking, hiking, traveling, and is an active member of the Aspetuck Land Trust.
Secretary – Felicia Keeton (2027)
Felicia Keeton became a member of TUUCW in 2009. When her children were in RE, she helped teach classes plus orchestrated a Camp Jewel weekend and a youth group trip to Washington, DC to serve with the Youth Services Opportunity Project (YSOP). More recently, she served on the Nominating Committee.
Professionally, Felicia has over forty years of leadership experience, primarily in revenue operations and enablement. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and obtained an MBA from California State University, Northridge. Felicia currently leads a revenue enablement team at Bamboo Health and is an active volunteer with SNEC PMI, co-leading monthly project management educational programs. Felicia also serves on the board of the Bridgeport chapter of the American Association of University Women. Felicia’s husband, David, is active on the Membership Committee.
Sari Bodi (2028)
Sari Bodi visited TUUCW for the first time in 1997 and spent the following years teaching RE until her two children, Ming and Luke, entered Youth Group. (While she took the kids to RE and choir, her husband Eric golfed and played in a band.) Then one fateful day, Sari interviewed Reverend John for a leadership class she was taking at Norwalk Community College. John must have sent out an all-points bulletin to the committee heads about someone interested in leadership, because the next thing Sari knew she was on the Nominating, Social Justice, and Beardsley committees followed by co-chairing UUWestport Women (and the Holiday Boutique), heading up UUWriters, writing postcards for UUtheVote, and singing in the choir. Oh, and there was that 6-line cameo as a police officer for UUPlayers. In an alternate life, Sari served as literary associate for the Long Wharf Theatre, published a middle grade novel, writes plays for children for Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine, and when she was younger and funnier, (not to mention better looking) wrote sketch comedy for BBC Radio in London.
Dayle Brownstein (2028)
Dayle has been a member of TUUCW since 2019. Over the years she’s participated in a number of different activities: Worship associate/chair, Voices Cafe, Soul Matters facilitator, membership committee, two membership search committees, and adult faith formation. These endeavors have allowed her to get to know many TUUCW members and develop a sense of the life and mission of our community. Dayle looks forward to the opportunity to serve our congregation in this new capacity.
Mark Corcoran (2027)
Mark was happy to discover TUUCW in 2009. He went through many levels of involvement in the Congregation: as an usher, singing in a choir, being a founding member of UGNO, volunteering with WestBridge and CIRI, and participating in United with Kenya. He has served as chair of the Endowment Committee and has sat on the Finance Committee for many years. A retired CPA, he has been active in local politics, and served on the Fairfield Plan and Zoning Commission for eight years. He lives in Fairfield with his partner Brian Villa.
Alexa Marshall (2026)
Alexa Marshall became a member of TUUCW in 2017, along with her husband and 2 boys. Her kids continue to participate in RE, and she has helped teach classes along the way. Professionally, Alexa has over twenty-five years of leadership experience, primarily in marketing and communications. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the Emory University and obtained an MBA from UCONN. Alexa is a Senior Vice President at Ipsos, leading a large team focused on advertising research that spans across a multitude of categories. She also leads the Gender Balance Network for Ipsos in North America, focused on achieving gender equity and career development and mentorship for all Ipsos employees. Alexa also serves on the board of the Silver Spring Country Club. Alexa’s husband, Fred, is active in the membership committee.
Julyen Norman (2028)
Julyen and his wife Cathy Paine have been members since 2015. He is a member of TUUCW’s choirs and has performed with the UU Players. His professional background includes executive positions in the non-profit arts world with the 1708 Gallery, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking to name a few. He has been a chef/owner of a variety of independent culinary enterprises which segwayed well to TUUCW’s social outreach program focused on the issue of food insecurity in low-income communities. He helped establish seasonal farmers’ markets in several Norwalk neighborhoods.
You have seen Julyen in our kitchen making food for social hour, many TUUCW’s events and providing soup sales to raise funds for TUUCW’s Social Justice programs. As a member of TUCW’s Immigration & Refugee Committee he helps in the resettlement of refugees arriving in Bridgeport through repairing and furnishing apartments. He served on COM (Committee on Ministries), helped run TUCW’s first online Auction, and volunteered in the Beardsley School. His volunteer work extends beyond just TUUCW as he is very involved in nonprofits in the community as well.
