People

Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

Minister for Worship and Formation in the Memorial Church

Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies

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...

Charles Anderson

charles_anderson@harvard.edu

Director of Finance & Operations

Jeffrey Blackwell

jeffrey_blackwell@harvard.edu

Creative and Communications Lead

Jeffrey Blackwell is the Creative and communication Lead for Memorial Church. He is responsible for all aspects of communications, content development, marketing and promotion, brand management, development, and creative campaigns. Jeffrey joined the...

Kevin P. Bryant

Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church

Harvard University Baptist Chaplain

Security Services Coordinator, Diversity/Community Liaison & Police Chaplain, Harvard University Police Department

Affiliated Minister Bryant is a Harvard University Baptist Chaplain, Harvard University Police and Newton Police Chaplain. Minister Kevin P. Bryant is a retired member of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) 1991-2020. He is also a member of...

Anna Burnham MDiv '20

anna_burnham@harvard.edu

Student Program Coordinator

Anna Burnham MDiv '20 serves as the Student Program Coordinator at the Memorial Church. Her experience in community and political organizing led her to Harvard Divinity School, where her study focused on religion, politics, public life, gender, social...

Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church

Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., joined the Divinity School in 2005. He is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology. He previously served as director of the Center for the Study of World Religions. After earning his doctorate in South...

Carson P. Cooman

carson_cooman@harvard.edu

Research Associate in Music and Composer in Residence

Carson Cooman is Research Associate in Music and Composer in Residence at the Memorial Church. As a composer, Cooman has produced a catalog of hundreds of works in many forms—from solo instrumental pieces to operas, and from orchestral works to hymn tunes...

Edward E. Jones

edward_jones@harvard.edu

Gund University Organist and Choirmaster

Curator of the University Organs

Edward Elwyn Jones is the Gund University Organist and Choirmaster in the Memorial Church. A native of Wales, Mr. Jones studied music at Cambridge University, where he was Organ Scholar of Emmanuel College. He moved to the United States in 1998, serving...

Frank Kelley

Voice Instructor

Frank Kelley sings a wide variety of music throughout North America and Europe. He has performed many roles with the Odyssey Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, Florentine Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, and the San Francisco Opera Company, and...

Theresa Lungu

theresa_lungu@harvard.edu

Program Manager & Pastoral Administrator

Theresa Lungu is the Program Manager and Pastoral Administrator at the Memorial Church. A graduate of Boston College and recipient of the Dean's Award for Creative Writing, Theresa's academic career started in Zambia as an administrator in the Ministry of...

Kerry A. Maloney

Affiliated Minister in the Memorial Church

Chaplain and Director of Religious and Spiritual Life, Harvard Divinity School

Kerry Maloney has served Harvard Divinity School since 2004, first as the associate director of ministry studies and then as chaplain and director of the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life. In the decade before her arrival at Harvard, she worked as...

Marty Martinage MDiv II

Seminarian

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...