Clergy & Seminarians

The Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts M.Div. '08 Ph.D. '13 was appointed the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in 2021. Prior to his appointment, Matt served as Associate Professor of Religion and Literature...

Emmanuel Akyeampong is the Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He was appointed a Loeb Harvard College Professor from July 2005 through June 2010. Akyeampong is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy...

Elizabeth began worshipping at the Memorial Church in 2018 as a first-year at Harvard College, and she’s overjoyed to continue serving the church community as a ministry fellow. Born and raised in a small town in western North Carolina, Elizabeth has a BA...

Amy is a Ministry Fellow here at the Memorial Church. She grew up all over the world in a military family. Amy received her undergraduate degree in Systems Management from the United States Military Academy in 2009 and then served for 15 years in...

Marty Martinage (they/them) is a Master of Divinity candidate at Harvard Divinity School, discerning a call to congregational ministry. Their mother was a youth pastor, and, according to apocryphal family history, Marty regularly held baptisms for their...

Justin Seward is a Master of Divinity candidate at Harvard Divinity School and a certified candidate for ordination in the United Methodist Church. From his teenage years growing up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania, he felt God calling him into the...