Ebe Emmons

Ebe Emmons, a third-generation Unitarian Universalist, has been an active member of First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh since 1997, previously from the Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church in Houston, TX. She has held a variety of roles in congregational life, including Chair of Committee on the Ministry, Children's Ministry Coordinator (staff) and Chair of Khasi Hills Partnership Steering Committee, Religious Education teacher, and frequent participant in musical activities. She is currently active in a new congregation based community organizing initiative in her Pittsburgh Church.

Since 2005, Emmons has traveled twice to the Khasi Hills of India with the UUPCC to visit projects which her congregation has supported. She has also traveled throughout Central and South America, including a trip to Guatemala in 2007 to visit a microcredit program for women. She has an ongoing interest in hands-on service projects for social justice.

Emmons has worked as a clinical social worker since 1976 in a variety of mental health settings, including residential treatment for children, college counseling, and hospital child development. She works in Pittsburgh as a psychotherapist in private practice, largely with young adults. She holds a BA from Harvard College and an MS from Columbia University School of social work, and is the mother of two young adult daughters, one a college student in California, and one a new ESOL teacher in Philadelphia.