Rev. Dr. Alison Boden . . .

serves as Dean of Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and teaches at the University of Chicago's Divinity School. She is a graduate of Vassar College and New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. After some years' work as an actress in Manhattan, she began study there at Union Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, her past positions include chaplaincies at Bucknell University and Union College. Reverend Boden has been active with a variety of nongovernmental organizations whose focus is religious-based movements for social change in Central America and the Caribbean. She has authored articles on pediatric AIDS, religion and the academy, and human rights in Cuba, as well as a book of meditations for Advent: "E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come."