Purpose
The Working for Justice (WFJ) works to offer vital social justice programming that is personally transformative for the congregation and contributes to needed change in the community.
Committee Charge
The WFJ is charged to organize and support social justice initiatives that express the UUCB chosen focus to work towards the prevention of prejudice and hate. Initiatives seek to encourage reflection and action among the entire congregation.
Committee Structure & Members
Our Working for Justice Steering Group is active, powerful, and constantly growing and changing to meet the needs of our world and our local community. It is specifically designed to be a steering group, rather than a committee. Individual focus areas each have a point person who takes responsibility for the implementation of initiatives.
Members 2026-2027
WFJ Leadership Team: a 3-member team manages all communication, documentation and oversight of special events
Leadership Team: Betty Robinson
WFJ Steering Group: consists of representatives from every Focus Group
Focus Groups: groups of UUCBers who gather to learn about and engage with issue areas of concern to them.
The following is a list of Focus Groups and their respective contact people as of September 2026:
FOCUS GROUPS (with contact persons)
- BLACK LIVES MATTER–Jane Danielson,
- CHARITIES WITH SOUL–Stephen Wood,
- CLIMATE JUSTICE–Jackie Cressy,
- GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION–Lynn Ellis,
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY–Gretchen Kamilewicz,
- HOUSING–Jaki Ellis,
- IMMIGRANT JUSTICE– Faith Barnes–
- WABANAKI AWARENESS–Cathey Cyrus,
- ACTION NETWORK–Betsy Williams–
- TEEN CENTER ADVOCATES–Carol Briggs==
- LGBTQIA+ Kathy Glennon and Diane Fisher
- RESTORATIVE JUSTICE – Di Kew
Further Information
- Black Lives Matter
- Brunswick Area Teen Center
- Charities with Soul
- Gun Violence Education and Awareness
- Habitat for Humanity
- Indigenous Awareness and Immigrant Justice
- MUUSAN
UUA Affirming Congregational Commitment to Gun Violence Prevention:
Affirming Congregational Commitment to Gun Violence Prevention2014 Action of Immediate Witness
Our History:
History of Working for Justice