Sofía Betancourt
American minister
Sofía Betancourt is an American minister and professor who is the tenth president of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). The UUA president is the CEO and religious leader of Unitarian Universalism in the USA. Betancourt is the first woman of color and openly queer person to be elected to the office.
Education and career
Betancourt graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Ethnobotany, Starr King School for the Ministry with a M.Div., and Yale University with M.A. and M.Phil. degrees as well as a Ph.D. in Religious Ethics and African American Studies. While completing her M.Div., Betancourt served as intern minister at the UU Church of Berkeley, California. She was ordained in 2004.
Betancourt was senior minister of the First UU Church of Stockton, California; consulting minister at the UU Fellowship of Storrs, Connecticut; and interim minister at the UU Church of Fresno, California.
From 2005 to 2009 she served as director of the UUA’s Office of Racial and Ethnic Concerns, and she has served on numerous appointed and elected UUA committees, including the Appointments Committee, the Nominating Committee, the Cultural Misappropriation Task Force, and the Journey Toward Wholeness Transformation Committee.
From 2009 to 2022 Betancourt worked in academia. She began as a teaching fellow at Yale College and Yale Divinity School from 2009 to 2013.
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