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.
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, Rev. Diane Rollert, and Rev. Ian White Maher. 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.
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.