Our Staff
Julie is a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, which focuses on the recreation of life and culture in the Middle Ages. Julie brings us excellent skills in administration, new technology, and organization.
Our Administrator: Julie Golick
Julie has worked as administrator with a number of non-profit organizations, including Fertility Matters Canada, as well as having worked for McGill University as a curriculum administrator, and as an editor and writing tutor. She has a Masters of Arts in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto and a BA with Great Distinction from Concordia University.
Katharine graduated from Concordia University with a double major in theatre and political science and a minor in theology. They are an avid knitter and storyteller who is passionate about Unitarian Universalism. They are also the proud parent of Thora.
Our Director of Religious Exploration: Katharine Childs
Katharine comes to us with many wonderful skills. They are comfortably bilingual, speaking and writing in both English and French, and have spent years working in non-profit administration, training employees, and recruiting and coordinating volunteers. Katharine has been a director of church summer camp programs, has training in theatre, and has worked with children in theatre.
Katharine has been an active member of our community, volunteering in the RE program and in worship, providing support for congregational gatherings, and setting up a knitting ministry. They were recently trained in the Our Whole Lives UU human sexuality program for children and youth.
Currently, she is finishing up her first full-length solo album of soul/blues originals (www.unspokenplace.com), working as a Research Assistant with Kathy Kennedy- exploring the relationship between music and memory in the elderly, and taking the prerequisites to pursue the Graduate Diploma in Music Therapy at Concordia University.
Our Director of Music: Eleuthera Diconca-Lippert
Eleuthera has over two decades of professional performance experience as a vocalist, including touring solo and with her vocal trio Fruiting Bodies across Canada, the US, Uruguay and Iceland.
She has trained with gifted performers including Rhiannon, Margie Gillis, Bobby McFerrin and Zakir Hussain at Carnegie Hall.
She released a full-length album of original compositions with Fruiting Bodies entitled Fascia in 2013 and her own first full-length album of soul/blues originals in 2018 entitled It’s Been A Long Time Coming, all while taking the prerequisites to pursue the Graduate Diploma in Music Therapy at Concordia University.
Eleuthera has led singing circles for the last twelve years and hosted creative community gatherings for the last eight. These include Music for Peace, Community Sing!, the Espace Vegane Open Mic and the Green Mic Open Mic at Co-op la maison verte. The open mics were unique in that they were multidisciplinary, open to all performative arts (music, poetry, comedy, dance, circus, live painting etc) and encouraged collaborations between participants.
She directs UCM’s Phoenix Community Choir, which rehearses Thursdays 7:00 to 8:30 pm from September to June. All are welcome! You can contact her at choir@ucmtl.ca with any questions you might have.
Our Pianist: Sandra Hunt
Sandra Hunt hails from Edmonton, Alberta where she received a master in piano performance and Literature from the University of Alberta. She also studied in Victoria, Lubeck and Salzburg with the help of Canada Council and Heritage Fund grants and prizes.
After many years as both a summer and winter student at the Banff Centre, she began working there as a coach accompanist for Opera, Lieder and the Gifted Youth programs. She has taught at the Victoria Conservatory, the University of Saskatchewan and privately. In the Montreal Symphony she performed concerts and accompanied for their auditions. She is an accompanist for the music students of McGill and Université de Montréal.
Sandra has also been pianist for Janos Starker cello master classes at Orford and those of Alain Trudel, trombonist, at Domaine Forget music schools.
In the fall of 1987, she began as the Unitarian church pianist, initially working with Reverend Charles Eddis in Channing Hall on Simpson Street, and followed by Rev. Ray Drennan at the new church, and Rev. Diane Rollert. She became music director in 1998 and also conducted The Family Ringers and Singers, and for eleven years, The Parts in Peace Choir.
She is an avid choral singer, and has been an alto in the St. Lawrence Choir since 2016. Another great love is her engagement as one of the founders and coaches for L’Ensemble the violoncelles de Montreal, a group of auditioned and dedicated young cellists who started their instruments in 2020 and are learning and performing together.
Currently, Loralie develops and implements communications strategies, HR plans, and training programs for non-profit organizations. Her goal is to help organizations implement healthy policies and practices that extend their reach while fulfilling their mission and vision.
Our Communications Specialist: Loralie Bromby
Loralie has over 15 years of experience in the non-profit sector including communications project management, fundraising, media arts, and community organizing.
She studied Integrated Media at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. She started her non-profit journey at the Girls Action Foundation as a creator and facilitator of media arts programs for young women. While working as a project and communications coordinator at the Center for Community Organizations, she coordinated the Quebecer’s Map to Fundraising project and all communications tools for the organization. Following that, she developed and implemented strategic communications plans and maintained online communications for organizations such as the African Canadian Development and Prevention Network and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. She launched the Youth Media Lab project in Kingston, Jamaica, an anti-violence community project that offers at risk youth a safe space where they can develop skills in media arts.
Our Rentals Coordinator: Mariel Edwards-Carreau
Mariel has 12 years of experience as a non-profit professional, focusing on fundraising, communications & marketing, program development and project management. She is passionate about community organizing and is grateful to be able to use her experience coordinating and managing community spaces to bring people together within the Unitarian Universalist community in Montreal and beyond. In addition to her role at UCM, Mariel is currently the lead in fundraising and engagement for a national charity.
Mariel has been an active member of our community since the age of 16 and in the past two decades has worked as both a religious explorations education and an event concierge and has even sung in the choir!
Our Religious Explorations Program Assistant and Youth Advisor: Caite Clark
Caite (she/her) is a theatre artist and educator originally from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation/Guelph, Ontario. She started attending services at the UCM in 2015, serving as a Religious Explorations Teacher and the former Summer Services Coordinator. Caite holds a BFA in Theatre & Development from Concordia University, where she specialized in community-engaged artistic practices such as restorative justice and oral history. Outside of church, she's taught high school-level Ethics and Social Justice, and also mentors youth working behind-the scenes in theatre. Caite's passions include exploring the outdoors, reading young adult novels, and baking. At the UCM, Caite sees Youth Group as a space for collaboration, critical thinking, and radical imagination.
Our Building Manager: Maxim Wood
Mostly self-taught or mentored multidisciplinarian from the world of events, Maxim is a stagehand, carpenter, recording studio owner, and sound technician outside of the church. You can contact Maxim for questions on building or parking lot maitenance.