Biographical Sketch
Rev. Dr. Tracey Robinson-Harris

Rev. Dr. Tracey Robinson-Harris is a Minister of Religious Education and is
serving as Director for Congregational Services at the UUA, a position she
has held since July 1, 2002. She has been on the UUA staff since November
of 1995, when she accepted the position of Deputy Director for
Congregational, District and Extension Services.

As Director for Congregational Services, Tracey manages programs and works
with staff to challenge and assist our congregations of all sizes to live
up to their potential as liberal religious communities.  Currently
Congregational Services includes resources, programs and consultation in
Congregational Fundraising, New Congregation and Growth Resources, Young
Adult and Campus Ministry, Lay Leadership Development, Congregational
Justice Making, Ethics and Safety in Congregational Life, Services to Large
Congregations.

Tracey came to the staff from a ministry with the Community Church of New
York in Manhattan (1988-1995).  She also served the First Parish Church in
Lexington, MA (MRE from 1983-1988), First Unitarian Universalist Church in
Nashville, TN (DRE, 1980-1983) and the First Unitarian Church in Lynchburg,
Virginia (DRE, 1977-1980)

During these years Tracey served the denomination as a member and chair of
the continental Women and Religion Committee, co-author of the religious
education curriculum Beyond Pink and Blue (on gender identity for teens),
the Hymnbook Advisory Committee (that did preparatory work for Singing the
Living Tradition), a member of the Board of the Liberal Religious Educators
Association, and a member of the Modified Residency Program Committee
(Meadville Lombard).

Her educational background includes Doctor of Ministry and Master of
Divinity degrees from Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN and a
certificate from the UUA Independent Study Program for Ministry of
Religious Education (now the Modified Residency Program of Meadville
Lombard Theological School.)

She became a Unitarian Universalist following a conversion experience at
the time of her grandmother's death.  Raised a Southern Baptist, Tracey
discovered the UU faith during high school with the help of a friend and a
class in World Religions.  When her grandmother died on Easter 1971 - she
faced a choice.  In need of solace and understanding she had to decide
whether the Southern Baptist Church could minister to her or whether this
newfound faith of Unitarian Universalism was where she could find what she
needed.  She went to the UU church in Lynchburg that Easter Sunday and
found the saving message she was searching for - that deep faith does not
require baptism (neither she nor here grandmother were), church attendance
(her grandmother never went), and one doctrine (that Jesus is the way) in
order to be real, that eternal life is ours as we live on in the lives and
hearts of those whom we touch with our love.

Tracey has two stepdaughters, Lenora and Jennifer. She lives in Ashby, MA
in an 1860's New England farmhouse in the center of town that was the
parsonage for the First Parish Church.  She enjoys restoring and remodeling
her old house, hiking in Yellowstone National Park, snowshoeing and
gardening.