Rev. Laurel Gray is currently serving as the minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregational Society of Westborough, MA. She previously served as the Ministerial Intern and Summer Minister at First Parish in Concord, MA as as the Membership Coordinator at the Unitarian Society of New Haven, CT. She is a native New Englander – she grew up in southern Rhode Island and then attended college in Vermont – and is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist. She finished her graduate work at Yale Divinity School in addition to spending a year at Starr King School for the Ministry. Between college and graduate school, she lived in San Francisco and worked in the wedding and event industry. Laurel decided to go into parish ministry because she believes in the importance of having a space to search for meaning together and experience belonging.