Rev. Selena Fox is founder, senior minister and high priestess of Circle Sanctuary, a 200-acre Nature Spirituality church and Lady Liberty League, an organization supporting the religious freedom of Wiccan, Pagan and earth-centered traditions.

For more than thirty years, Rev. Fox has served as an elder, religious freedom activist, and public media spokesperson for the Wiccan religion and related forms of contemporary Paganism and Nature religion, nationwide and internationally. As part of her work, Rev. Selena Fox is active in preserving ancient and contemporary sacred sites across many religions. As Executive Director of Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve, she oversees its ritual sites, including an ancient site on the National Register of Historic Places.

 Rev. has been a speaker and delegate at various international interreligious  representing Nature spirituality, religion, and contemporary Paganism at conferences and served as a consultant on Wiccan religious accommodation issues to chaplains in the US military, corrections, colleges and universities, hospices, mental health clinics, and hospitals. She is among the religious leaders appointed to and presently serving on the Religious Practices Advisory Committee to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. She also has served as an advisor on Wiccan, Pagan, and Nature religions religious accommodation issues to the Pentagon and the US Department of Justice.

She has been part of numerous interfaith educational media programs, locally, nationally, and internationally, including appearing on radio, television, and film. She has been an academic consultant on research projects and publications including religious studies, psychology, anthropology, history, law, and medicine. In 1995, she co-founded the Nature Religions Scholars Network, which in 2005 became the Contemporary Pagan Studies Consultation of the American Academy of Religion.

Selena has been associated with CUUPS in various ways over its forty-year history. We are happy to welcome her to this year’s event.

Dennis D. Carpenter, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Circle Sanctuary Minister.  His current interests include Ecopsychology, Nature Spirituality, Pilates, Yoga, Cardio Interval Training, and Mindfulness Meditation.  He presents workshops about the health and wellness benefits of experiences in Nature, exercise, and mindfulness; and the potential of such experiences to strengthen ecological awareness and activism.  He guides Mindful Nature Walks at Circle Sanctuary to help folks connect more deeply with Nature.

Marilynne Roach - Author of Six Women of Salem and The Salem Witch Trials: a Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege. Member of the Gallows Hill Project who verified the correct site of the 1692 Witch Trial hangings.  She has written for publications as varied as the Boston Globe, the New England Historic Genealogical Register, and the Lizzie Borden Quarterly.

Susan Foster, PhD. - A longtime Unitarian Universalist Pagan, and Chapter Coordinator of CUUPS and founder of two CUUPS chapters—one in MA and another in NC. She has written articles for the Feminism and Religion website; one of them, called “Why Feminism Needs the Fierce Goddesses,” became the basis for her book Righteous Rage, published in 2025 by Chiron Publications. Foster has taught philosophy and women’s studies on the college level, but she left academia to retrain as a clinical psychologist. She now has a private psychotherapy practice in Asheville, NC. She believes that for one group in society, such as women, to be free, we must all be free, necessitating that all segments of society, including both men and women, work together to defeat patriarchy and establish a social order that supports the rights and wellbeing of all people.

Rev. Eric Eldritch is a community organizer and a co-administrator and instructor within Circle Sanctuary’s Ministry Training Program. Eldritch designs ceremonies for the annual Pagan Spirit Gathering, and teaches in the Pagan Leadership Institute. Eldritch is also a founding member of The Stone Circle Tradition of Wicca (USA), an ecofeminist and Queer Spirituality-based religious community, fostering vocations of Wiccan priest/x/esshood in service to all in Earth’s household. His spiritual journey encompasses experience in many communities including former membership in the Church of Christ, Washington Community Fellowship, Hyattsville Mennonite Church, and Metropolitan Community Church, DC. Today, Eldritch is a member of the Radical Faeries, Circle Sanctuary, the Paint Branch Unitarian Universalist Church, and a co-founder of The Stone Circle Tradition of Wicca (USA). For the past 40 years, Eldritch has shared in nonprofit, federal and professional organization leadership. He specializes in event planning, project management and organizational development based on principles of social justice, group identity, sociolinguistics and cross-cultural relations.

Rev. Dr. John Gilmore (Om Prakash) is a retired UU Minister working to promote Health, Wellness, and Healing.  He served as a Parish Minister for many years and has held positions in several social justice and currently serves on the CUUPS Board of Trustees. Om comes from a multicultural family of Cree, Cher­okee, and African-American roots. He is a contributor to Voices from the Margins: An Anthology of Meditations, edited by Jacqui James and Mark D. Morrison-Reed (Skinner House, 2012) 

He was a Unitarian Universalist (UU) Minister for more than fifteen years starting as a Parish Minister and Extension Minister and moving toward Community Ministry.  He is now a retired UU Minister working to promote Health, Wellness, and Healing on the levels of mind, body, and spirit.  He served as a Parish Minister for many years, and lastly as a Wellness and Social Justice Community Minister at UU Church of Bedford, MA while working as the Director of the MA Chapter of the Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community  (UUJEC) and later the Co-Director and Director of the UUJEC National.  Om Prakash was also a JUUST Change Consultant, and Director of Racial and Social Justice for the Joseph Priestley District.  He has been a CUUPS member for several years and is now serves as the CUUPS Ministerial and Right Relations Liaison.   

Elizabeth Parker participates with the Turning Wheel CUUPS chapter at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Salisbury, Maryland. Liz brings her gift of songs and chants to this year's event.

Rev. Jerrie Hildebrand has been affiliated with national Earth- and nature-centered organizations since 1986. She is the current president and communications liaison of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, Inc., and a member of First Church UU in Salem, Massachusetts, where she serves on the Standing Committee and has been a Circle Sanctuary minister since 2004. She participated in the quest for veterans’ sacred symbols on government-issued headstones, served as a volunteer chaplain in state and regional federal correctional systems, and has spoken and served as an Ambassador at the Parliament of the World Religions multiple times. She has written for many Pagan/Earth-Centered publications and is co-editor and co-author, with the Rev. Shirley Ranck, of the book Pagan and Earth-Centered Voices of Unitarian Universalism (Skinner House)