Rev. Patrice K. Curtis is UUA’s Transformational Interim Ministries Director. Patrice collaborates with and supports interim ministers in amplifying and practicing diversity, equity, and inclusion within congregations, and in disrupting unhealthy patterns that make Beloved Community difficult to realize. Before beginning ministry at the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), Patrice served four congregations and as Program Director with the UU Justice Ministry of California. Patrice practices Tibetan Buddhist-based spirituality (20+years), has trained in teaching Shamata meditation, and studied Mindful Self-Compassion, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

Rabbi Ilana C. Garber is the Senior Director of Rabbinic Leadership for the Rabbinical Assembly, a global membership organization of over 1,600 rabbis who are associated with the Conservative/Masorti Movement of Judaism. Previously, she served the synagogue community of Beth El Temple (West Hartford, CT) for fifteen years. 

A graduate from the double degree program of List College (Talmud) and Barnard College (Religion) in 2000, she received her MA from the Wm. Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education in 2003, and was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2005. 

A visionary Jewish educator, Rabbi Garber created SULAM (Seek, Understand, Learn, Act, Marvel) in a complete overhaul of Beth El Temple’s religious school. Passionate about the mikveh, she wrote the curriculum to train mikveh guides for Boston’s Mayyim Hayyim: Living Waters Community Mikveh. Currently she serves on the board of Greater Hartford’s Mikveh Bess Israel.

The Reverend Julie N. Harris is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church.  Although currently serving in a settled pastorate as Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Martinsburg, WV, she has been involved with IMN since 2000.  During that time, she has been active as a member of the Annual Conference planning team, a member of the Board of Directors and as Vice President.  Julie has also been active as a Board Member of Interim Ministries in the Episcopal Church since 2010.   She finds energy in times of transition and believes that all ministry is transition ministry.  She is a healer and administrator who has assisted several parishes discover hope and new life in the aftermath of conflicted pastorates.  Julie finds the nexus of her ministry in the words of the prophet Micah:  What does the Lord require? To do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with God.

The Rev. Dr. Robert McFarlane serves as Presbytery Ministry Leader within the Parramatta Nepean Presbytery – PNP – (Synod of NSW and the Australian Capital Territory – NSW/ACT – within the Uniting Church in Australia). PNP has 60 congregations with 35 ministers, serving a region of 2,000,000 in western Sydney, characterized by cultural diversity and new housing areas.
This means that he works with congregations to help them be as healthy in their own life, and as strong in their mission and service in their communities as they can be. Rob also works with ministers to help them be as spiritually and emotionally healthy as possible, and as effective in their ministry as they, too, can be.
Rob oversees the placement of ministers in congregations (including IIM), continuing education for ministry, and ministry retreats. He also works with congregations in mission planning and discernment using IIM-related skills, notably Appreciative Inquiry and Asset Mapping.

Rev. Katrina Palan is an ordained minister with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She is in a time of transition having completed her nineth interim position, two of which were judicatory ministry positions. She is currently living in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma close to six of her eleven grandchildren. Katrina is on the Interim Ministry Network Board of Directors and serves on its conference planning team, the hybrid conference task force, the conference meditation site planning team, and the instructional design team. She is also a VSG co-host and a “Chat-With Us” co-host. Katrina is a military veteran and serves on the Moral Injury Institute Board of Directors. She has experience in hospital, police, and sheriff chaplaincy. Katrina is currently a level-3 Chaplain with the Salvation Army Disaster Team. She has extensive experience in working with people in traumatic situations. Katrina is currently working on her Doctorate of Ministry at Brite Divinity in Fort Worth, TX. Her Dissertation title and emphasis is “How Can Spiritual Practices Help to Minimize the Consequences, Responses and Feelings Encountered by Veterans Impacted by Moral Injury”.