Religion-based organizer Aaron Scott has been named gender justice employees officer—a brand new Episcopal Church place referred to as for by the eightieth Common Conference that’s devoted to LGBTQ+ and girls’s ministries. He’ll begin on April 29.
Scott co-founded Chaplains on the Harbor, and he most not too long ago labored at Union Theological Seminary’s Kairos Middle as challenge coordinator for the Countering White Christian Nationalism Initiative. He serves on the nationwide steering committee for the Poor Individuals’s Marketing campaign: A Nationwide Name for Ethical Revival.
As an organizer from the transgender neighborhood, Scott started his gender justice work in 2006 with Queers for Financial Justice; since then, his work has included management improvement for ladies and LGBTQ+ folks navigating the immigration and public help programs—and people dwelling in encampments, shelters, and incarceration amenities.
Scott has been appointed on the suggestion of a committee that included folks of trans, nonbinary, LGBTQ+, and cisgender identities—in addition to representatives from Episcopal Church Girls, TransEpiscopal, and the Union of Black Episcopalians.
Scott holds a grasp’s diploma in biblical research from Union Theological Seminary, with an emphasis on gender and the New Testomony, and a bachelor’s diploma in Spanish and Latinx research from Fordham College.
In his new position, Scott will search to encourage, collect, and equip Episcopalians for justice, advocacy, and inclusion work targeted on girls and LGBTQ+ folks. He’ll present and develop formation alternatives to help inclusion of all gender identities and expressions, acquire and share associated assets, and develop networks of leaders for encouragement and cooperation.
“Candidates all taught pattern classes and gave sermons on gender and theology, and Aaron impressed the committee together with his theological and community-organizing information,” mentioned the Rev. Melanie Mullen, director of reconciliation, justice, and creation care—and hiring supervisor for this place. “There may be nice urgency to guard members of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, and we look ahead to the affect Aaron’s work could have on the church and past.”
Beneath the management of Mullen, an 11-member gender justice committee labored to formulate a ministry imaginative and prescient and job description. Decision A063, which gave rise to the place, was developed from work finished by the Process Drive to Research Sexism in The Episcopal Church and Develop Anti-Sexism Coaching. The decision’s name concerning anti-sexism coaching modules can be being addressed via Formation Division employees.
