Marchaé Grair (they/she) is Still Harbor’s Director of Programs. Marchaé designs curriculum for and co-teaches Still Harbor’s Spiritual Direction Practicum. They are a spiritual director, workshop designer, storyteller, public speaker, and facilitator engaging hearts and minds at the intersections of spirituality and collective liberation. Marchaé was raised Pentecostal (Church of God and Christ) and later attended a United Church of Christ congregation. They are unaffiliated with any tradition but still love creating spiritual community and singing gospel music on Sunday mornings. They are proud to be Black, queer, nonbinary, anxious, and polyamorous. She would describe her inner soundtrack as a combination of gospel music, her grandmother’s prayers, Maya Angelou’s writing, and her karaoke greatest hits.

Rev. Molly Bolton (she/her, they/them) is a spiritual director, grief group facilitator, and poet who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Eastern Cherokee Land. She is ordained by the United Church of Christ and served as a staff chaplain at Cleveland Clinic for six years. Molly holds a Master of Divinity from Wake Forest School of Divinity and a Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction from San Francisco Theological Seminary. Molly is a weekly liturgist for Liturgy that Matters, a project of enfleshed, and is invested in expansive language as a tool for consolation and liberation. Molly loves swimming holes, porch sits, feminist romance novels, and water Zumba at the Rec Center. Learn more about their work at revmollybolton.com.

Rev. Perry Dougherty (she/her) is the Co-Chair of the Still Harbor Board, founder of Rootwise Leadership, an Instructor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and editor of The Anatomy of Silence (Red Press 2019). Perry is an ordained Interspiritual Minister by One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, a spiritual director, a certified mindfulness teacher, and a contemplative facilitator. She has a background in justice-rooted direct service organizations, organizational training and development, as well as non-profit leadership and management. Perry brings an liberation theology-informed perspective on social justice, pedagogy, and learning, which she studied at Washington University in St. Louis. In her work as a leadership and organizational development coach and consultant, she explores the ways unlearning, creative expression, storytelling, and personal transformation support radical social change. Her personal spirituality is eclectic and mystical—she is a seeker at heart and has found home in eastern contemplative, embodied spiritual paths.

Rev. Dr. Althea Smith is the Co-Chair of the Still Harbor Board and an ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister. She is a community minister and Executive Director of the Joshua D Smith Legacy Project, named for her son, who was murdered in 2021. The project seeks opportunities to redefine community ministry with the idea that service alone will never get us to justice. Her formative years were spent in the Pentecostal church, where she worked to establish a storefront church in Dorchester, MA, provide meals to those in need, and provide spiritual care. Her own spiritual practice is eclectic. Rev. Dr. Smith is an abolitionist. She is working on a spiritual direction project focusing on Abolition as a Spiritual Practice. She works with the Mass Bail Fund and is invested in the work of Families for Justice As Healing, which is a member of the National Council for incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. Her strong community ties to Dorchester are currently expressed in her participation as Chair of the Board at Brookview House, a transitional living program for women and children experiencing homelessness, and a member of the Interfaith Committee of the Louis D Brown Peace Institute, which supports families that have experienced homicide. Rev. Dr. Smith has a Doctor of Psychology from Boston University and a Master of Divinity from the Episcopal Divinity School. She is a Doctor of Ministry Candidate at Berkley School of Theology. In September 2023, she retired as a registered nurse after 50 years of service.

Ellie Hutchison Cervantes (she/her/ella) is a white, asexual woman, lay spiritual leader, and social impact communicator. Over the past eight years, Ellie has worked with organizations serving refugees and immigrants, advocating for human rights and gender equality, and addressing poverty and other social issues. As a survivor of religious abuse, Ellie is passionate about supporting healing journeys and nurturing creative new forms of community for spiritual seekers and "nones." She is published in Beyond Worship: Meditations on Queer Worship, Liturgy, and Theology and holds a M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, where she focused her studies on the intersection of spiritual care and social healing. Originally from the Midwest, Ellie currently lives in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where her spouse is from.

Rev. Edward M. Cardoza, MA.Min. (he/him) is the co-founder of Still Harbor. Ed serves as a facilitator, chaplain, and spiritual director at Still Harbor. Ed received a Master’s in Arts in Ministry from Saint John’s Seminary School of Theology in 2003. He completed a practicum in spiritual direction at the Center for Religious Development through the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to serving with Still Harbor, Ed is also ordained in the Episcopal tradition and is priest-in-charge at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Ed serves on the board of directors for the global health non-profit Partners In Health, where he was the Vice President for Development for 6 years. He also served on the board of Episcopal City Mission and Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation.