Welcome, friend. I’m so glad you’re here.
My name is Emma, and I currently make home in Wampanoag and Massachusett lands in Boston and in Wabanaki lands in midcoast Maine. I am a mother, wife, daughter, sister, and friend; a facilitator, a preacher, a teacher, a writer, and a doula for life’s thresholds. I love to dance, sing with others, cook for beloveds, dip in cold water, and curl up in a sunny window with a good book.
I believe wholeheartedly in the power and necessity of accompaniment and of ritual: to honor the thresholds of grief and becoming that we cross in this life, and to free us up to offer our gifts generously toward the healing of the world.
It gives me deep joy to design and facilitate creative ritual; to officiate weddings and funerals and other rites of passage ceremonies; to keep watch with the birthing and the dying; and to practice close spiritual accompaniment for all reproductive experiences, including pregnancy loss, pregnancy release or termination, infertility, birth, and the initiation of becoming a parent.
I dedicate all of my work to the healing of our culture and the healing of our relations with ourselves, with each other, and with the Earth.
I am grateful to have been formed in this work by many streams:
An apprenticeship and love for the living Earth, and a close listening to the land
Summers as a young person spent in rural communities in Nicaragua, connecting across cultures and being formed by their collective practice of worship, Celebration of the Word
Birth doula training in 2012-2013
Seasons spent running programs and learning at the Corrymeela Community, Northern Ireland’s oldest established peace and reconciliation center
Apprenticeship to Joanna Macy’s teaching, including a ten-day in-person intensive studying with Joanna about systems thinking and The Work that Reconnects
Study and practice with adrienne maree brown at her Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute
200-hour yoga teacher training via the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
Afro-indigenous practices and ancestral connection with a prayer towards reparations through Reparations Summer
Deep apprenticeship with children’s ways of being, learning, and becoming through eight years spent as an elementary school teacher and social justice coordinator in schools, after earning my MEd in 2014
Three years at Harvard Divinity School, where I earned my MDiv in 2024 and focused my work on Racial Justice & Healing and wrote a final thesis on theologies and spiritual practices to accompany pregnancy loss and abortion, some of which can be found here
Participation in and accompaniment of Earth-based rites of passage work in the lineage of the School of Lost Borders
Training in the history and practice of keening with the dead and keeping watch with the dying
Work as a chaplain on the rehab floor of an elder care facility, where I learned to accompany people in pain, loss, hope, death, and becoming
Work as a progressive Christian pastor at First Church in Cambridge, where I preached regularly, led programming and retreats, officiated memorial services and other rituals, offered pastoral care, and led song
My own ongoing formation and praxis with motherhood, grief, conflict, ancestral connection, reclamation, and reckoning, reparations, and Earth-based rites of passage
It would be my joy to support you through ritual, spiritual accompaniment, or ceremony. Please reach out to connect for a free discovery call to explore if we’re a good fit.
