A second career minister, Nancy was ordained in 2011 in the ABC-USA, and served from 2017-2023, as the Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Littleton, MA. Since leaving that role, Nancy’s ministry has included regular reflection writing and composing music, leading book groups and contemplative nature walks, all of which you can link to via https://allourdays.substack.com/. She also regularly co-facilitates Monday Morning Grounding for Music that Makes Community, a song and poetry sharing gathering on Zoom, and serves as an occasional workshop and retreat facilitator for Music that Makes Community. She has served as the treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Conference of Baptist Ministers in Massachusetts since January 2022. Nancy joined the board of Music that Makes Community in 2023, and currently serves as Board Secretary.

Nancy worked for 21 years, until 2018, as the Chief Financial Officer at Somerville Cambridge Elder Services, an elder care/home care organization and area agency on aging, where she oversaw finance, facilities and IT, and she also founded their interfaith Spiritual Caregiving Volunteer program. Nancy has worked for both non-profit and for-profit organizations: the Boston Camerata, Monadnock Music, Emmanuel Music, and VHA Healthfront; for six years, had her own training and consulting business focusing on customer service; and spent 8 years at GTE Sylvania in accounting/finance, MIS project management, and sales and marketing.

Nancy is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a major in music and a minor in history, and has her Masters from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Marketing and Accounting. She received her Master of Divinity degree from Andover Newton Theological School with an emphasis on Worship, Theology and the Arts. Nancy grew up near Cortez, Colorado on a pinto bean and wheat farm that her grandparents originally homesteaded. She is a singer, occasional pianist, and writer of hymns and songs. Music is a central part of Nancy’s spiritual practices. Nancy has a commitment to welcome, hospitality and community building, and she has passions for the arts, social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion. She lives in the Boston area, and enjoys time with her partner, Debbie and adult daughter, Tori.