Rev Jo is known as a compassionate listener and is ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister

and chaplain.  She sometimes calls herself Jo of all trades as she has had a variety of careers. 

Along with her BA in Art where she taught art to 7th Graders and a Masters in Counseling, she

also received her Masters of Divinity degree at Starr King School for the Ministry. She believes

in a Higher Power and accepts all beliefs and loves to discuss personal beliefs with others. She

has served 5 congregations as a minister and worked in Hospital Chaplaincy in Hospitals in

Pennsylvania and in California. She received her Clinical Pastoral Education in both of these

hospitals and currently holds 5 Units in CPE. She still serves to perform weddings, Celebrations

of Life and Baby and Child Dedications. She is also experienced, and has been lauded for, grief

counseling when a pet is lost.

Rev Jo lives with a rambunctious mixed breed dog named Molly and a feisty cat called Merlin. 

She loves to garden and still creates art.  She is a prolific writer with a blog and dreams of

writing a memoir, hopefully soon!  Her belief in life is to create kindness where there is none, to

create compassion when it seems too hard, and to hold joy in life every day.