The Reverend Laura Everett serves as the executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, focused on reconfiguring historic institutions for the inclusive, antiracist work of the 21st century. Ordained by the United Church of Christ, Laura is formed by many parts of the Church. She is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Brown University and serves as a regular teacher for Duke Divinity School’s Foundations of Christian Leadership Program. She’s also the co-host of the podcast “Can These Bones” with Bill Lamar, from Faith and Leadership. Laura is the author of Holy Spokes: The Search for Urban Spirituality on Two Wheels, and her writing has appeared in Religion News Service, The Christian Century, WBUR, GBH, and the Boston Globe. She is a co-founder and editor of Boston Women’s Sports, a new media venture to amplify excellent, equitable, and antiracist sports coverage. A moderately competent seamstress, mender, and textile artist, Laura aims to learn with her hands what she longs for in the word: repair. She believes the work of this moment is to notice and dismantle the racism that has divided this nation and the Church. She’s convinced that if we’re all not free, it isn’t the gospel truth. Laura lives in Boston with her wife Abbi, who has a far more interesting vocation as a public middle school Latin teacher.