the Rev. Rita Powell
Chaplain
Rita Powell is the Episcopal Chaplain at Harvard, where she leads a diverse community committed to exploring the future of religion and Christianity through innovative engagement with land, ritual, liturgy, art, music, poetry, and the church's legacy of slavery. She has lived and worked in South Dakota, with the Taizé community in France, and at Trinity Church in Copley Square, Boston. She recently earned her MFA in poetry. She is also an avid KPop fan, yoga teacher, and distance runner.
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Elena loomis
Kellogg Fellow
Elena Loomis (they/them) is an artist, teacher, and avid reader. They are passionate about queer issues, disability justice, and body neutrality. Elena is working on learning more about decolonization and helping the unhoused. They are currently creating a watercolor series inspired by Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex.
John Rogers
Organist
John Rogers is a student at Harvard, currently in his junior year studying Latin and Greek literature. Having learned to play the organ and harpsichord as a student at Groton School, he continues to play in his roles as the Organ Scholar of All Saints' Parish in Ashmont, as a continuo player in the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, and as the president of the Harvard Organ Society. He is a person of somewhat predictable habitude and can usually be found either listening to Bach or Herbert Howells, or reading Virgil or T.S. Eliot.
Gabriel Colombo
Chaplaincy Fool
As the Chaplaincy Fool, Gabriel Colombo (he/him) dons manifold hats, including of the textile, spiritual, and dramatical varieties. He helps lead the Chaplaincy’s ministries of liturgy, hospitality, sacred theatre, and pilgrimage; contributes his expertise as an architectural and urban designer to our explorations; and, above all, strives to remind the Church of its vocation to holy whimsy. An alumnus of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and UT Austin, he can often be found wearing a sparkling Garment of the Blue of the Deep and leaping at the sound of a small bell.
The Board of Trustees
The Board of the Episcopal Chaplaincy is made up of alumni and friends of the Chaplaincy. They manage its financial affairs and help direct its mission. Our current board members are:
Mr. Robert Bitting, President
Prof. Kathleen Coleman, Vice President
Ms. Jane White, Treasurer
Dr. P. MacKenzie Bok
The Very Rev. Amy McCreath
Gabriel Colombo
The Rt. Rev. Julia E. Whitworth (ex officio)
