Biography

Cathy Cartwright, CRE. Cathy Cartwright currently serves as Director for Children's Programs at First Unitarian Church in Portland, Oregon. She comes from a background in community organizing: As a young adult in the '70s, she worked alongside other activists in Dayton Ohio, doing the good work of consciousness-raising around human rights issues, such as South African apartait and discrimination against working women. Her undergrad was in graphic arts and she went on to work for commercial establishments as well as non-profit organizations developing communication standards.

Both of these paths brought her to the Unitarian Universalist church in Princeton New Jersey in 1990, where she was approached to be the interim coordinator for religious education. Since her vocational calling, Cathy has trained extensively, through multi-denominational work (in ministering to families), to conflict management, to childhood development and more. She has served as a consultant with the Pacific Northwest District and a curriculum writer for the Unitarian Universalist Association. In 2007 Cathy was awarded Credentialed Religious Educator.