Vestry Members and Delegates

Jen Ewing has been attending the Church of the Redeemer since 2014, when she and her husband, Alex, moved to Chestnut Hill. .  She and Alex are parents to Eloise (age 10) and Jack (age 8).   Jen enjoys teaching Godly Play and otherwise finding ways to volunteer at the Church.  As her “day job”, Jen is a partner at Ropes & Gray where she is an estate planning attorney and serves as trustee and fiduciary for her clients.

Elliot and her family joined the Church of the Redeemer 21 years ago, when she and her family moved to MA from New York City.  At the Redeemer, Elliot has served as Co-Chair of Stewardship from 2007-09 and 2022, as a Lay Eucharistic Minister and Lector, often alongside her husband, John Paolella, and sons, William and James as past acolytes and servers.  During COVID, she was grateful to be part of the Spiritual Formation Group led by Graeme and Debbie Mills.  By profession, she was the John Moors Cabot Chair, Art of the Americas, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for 18 years, and the Director and CEO of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida before returning to Boston in the summer of 2020.  Elliot is currently a 2022 fellow in the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard, working on aggregating best practices for art museums to meet mission goals for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility while continuing to serve as an important resource for their communities. In addition to spending time with family and friends, Elliot enjoys reading, squash, yoga, and travel.

Ryan Sylvia lives locally in Newton Center with his wife (Louisa), two kids Luke (age 11) and Hadley (age 9), as well as their dog Axl.  Ryan has been coming to the Redeemer for over 8 years, was married to Louisa by Dorsey McConnell and the children were baptized with Mike Dangelo.  Ryan is passionate about his faith practices at the Redeemer, having dived into men's retreats, various Spiritual Transformation groups and regular Sunday worship.  He currently serves as Co-Chair for the Building & Grounds Committee, a group he has supported for many years now.  Ryan served also participated as a Diocesan Delegate Alternate, and has volunteered time in the past at the Christmas Market, St. Stephens and Common Cathedral.  Professionally Ryan is CEO for a technology consulting firm (Envisage, Inc.) in Marlborough and in his downtime enjoys exercise, sports, and time with family and friends.

Christa and her husband Jeff have been active members of the Redeemer since 2003, when they moved to Chestnut Hill.  A teacher of Sunday school for many years, Christa enjoyed being part of the program with her four children, Elaina 20, Elise 18, Brooks 16 and Scarlett  12.  Christa has also served on the Church School Committee.  Christa and Jeff’s children have grown up participating in many aspects of Redeemer life, including Sunday school, youth group and confirmation; serving as acolytes and volunteering as youth assistants.  Recently completing her training, Christa now volunteers for Planned Parenthood’s counseling and referral hotline.  Prior to having children, Christa worked as a journalist and in media relations in the public and private sectors.

Starr has been a member of the Redeemer for 14 years. She has been involved with many of the ministries of the Redeemer and currently, serves on the Sunday School Committee. After working in nonprofits and schools for 20 years, she now spends her time running after her three kids and driving them around metro west. Starr, Josh, Findlay, Winslow, Davis and Foxy Peteet live in Weston. 

Stephen and his wife Virginia have been Church of the Redeemer members for more than thirty years. Their sons, Chris and Tom, both attended preschool and Sunday school at the Redeemer. The boys attended confirmation classes and were confirmed at the Redeemer. Gina has been a member of the Altar Guild for more than twenty years. As Head of the Altar Guild she also served as Ex-Officio Member of The Vestry. Stephen officiates the daily prayer about three times a week.  “Worship at the Redeemer is critically important in my life.  I enjoy learning and music here immensely.”

Stephen is a Wisconsin native, but he has strong roots in Newton and Brookline. He has lived in Brookline forty-five years.  Both The Brookline TAB and The Newton TAB are among the fifteen community newspapers he founded, published and eventually sold to The Community Newspaper Company, a Fidelity Capital venture.  Both he and Gina have been active in managing The State House News Service, a news content provider with offices in Wellesley and in The State House, Boston, for more than twenty-five years. An entrepreneur, Stephen also founded News Service of Florida, and Travelers Marketing LLC, which currently operates highway safety programs for Highway Departments and Toll Highway Authorities in twenty-two states. Stephen enjoys playing golf, reading and rooting for The Red Sox at Fenway Park.

Jake, his wife Lily, and daughter Anastasia live in Brighton and have been coming to Church of the Redeemer for 3 years after being introduced to the church by Rev. Megan Holding prior to their marriage at the Old North Church. Jake and his family feel exceedingly fortunate to have found Redeemer and have made many supportive connections and close friends during their time as parishioners. Lily and Anastasia were baptized at Redeemer and continue to be a part of church life. Jake attended Berklee College of Music and graduated in 2020 with a degree in Drum Set Performance and a minor in Music Production and Engineering. He continues to work as a musician, audio engineer, and educator in and around New England. In his spare time Jake enjoys hiking, weightlifting, bushcraft, reading history and detective stories, and watching old movies. 

Paul and his wife Chris have been attending Church of the Redeemer regularly for the past five years, after being introduced to the parish fifteen years ago by their daughter who lived nearby.  Having attended four grandchild baptisms and numerous services at The Redeemer, they decided this would be their church after Paul’s retirement. 

Paul had been active at the Episcopal Church in Bangor, serving on the vestry and a rector search committee.  He very much enjoyed the choral musical training his children received there.  At The Redeemer, he has been seen flipping pancakes, wrestling with Christmas trees and packing FUEL bags.

Paul received an undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins, an M.D. degree from Stanford, did a medical internship at Dartmouth, and completed his residency at Harvard’s Joint Center for Radiation Therapy.  He then practiced radiation oncology in Bangor, Maine, for thirty-five years before retiring with Chris to Concord to be near children and grandchildren.  Paul and Chris have two daughters, a son, and seven grandchildren.  They are happy to call Redeemer their church home.

Kelly and Toby have been with the Church of the Redeemer for over 20 years. Kelly works at Boston Children's Hospital with a Doctor of Pharmacist degree. Toby works at Mass General Brigham as an ISO. Kelly was baptized when she was 18 in China. She has been involved with Episcopal churches throughout her adulthood. At the Redeemer, Kelly did various volunteering throughout the years such as back-to-school picnics, Christmas pageants, Christmas market auction dinner, and hosting B-SAFE partner luncheon three times, etc. Kelly and Toby were married at the Church of Redeemer by Rev. Dorsey McConnell in April 2005. They have two children, Ellie 18, and Ethan 17. Both children were confirmed at the Church. Ellie was a lector and evening prayer reader before she headed to Cornell University this past fall. Ethan is a server and evening prayer reader at the Redeemer. In their spare time, they love to cook different cuisines and travel to Europe and Asia as a family.

An Episcopalian for her entire adult life, Kate has attended Redeemer since 2015. During that time, she has been a regular at the 8:00 a.m. service and Adult Education, is Head of the Altar Guild, occasional Lector, and has volunteered for Habitat for Humanity work days. In the past, she has served as a LEM, reader, and vestry member. After a long career in private school leadership, Kate shifted to a less demanding position as the Executive Assistant to the Chief of General Medicine and Senior Project Manager at Beth Israel. She is also incoming Treasurer at the Cambridge Tennis Club where you can find her on the court with friends all summer long. She also enjoys running, spending time with friends & family, and better understanding how to embrace and promote faith, hope, and love in all circumstances.

Nina Moriarty has been a member of the parish of the Church of the Redeemer since moving to Chestnut Hill from Cambridge in 1977.  She has served and chaired the Sunday School Committee and the Church Service League and co-chaired the Christmas Market.  She has taught several Sunday school classes including the Confirmation class and continues to volunteer as a teacher for the Apostles class.   A member of the Altar guild since 1993, she has been its treasurer. She served on the vestry several times and served as its clerk , as member of 2 rector search committees and as a junior warden. She has been a Diocesan delegate and Deanery representative.

By profession, she taught Art History.  Her research lies in the field of later medieval manuscript illumination and the relationship between image and text.  Her volunteer activities included being a governor of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a visitor to the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts.  She has been a trustee of the College of the Atlantic, The Boston Theological Institute, the National Cathedral Association of the Washington National Cathedral, Concord Academy and the Park School. 

Nina is married to Marshall Moriarty, a retired partner of the law firm Ropes and Gray.   Their greatest pleasure is time spent with their children and grandchildren.   In addition, Nina enjoys gardening, reading and cooking.

Judy began teaching high school in 1965, and she still can't think of anything she would rather do and so she doesn’t retire. She began her career teaching history, English & Bible in East Africa. After 7 years, she left Kenya to teach at The Stony Brook School in NY where she was a boarding school administrator and teacher for 34 years. Currently, she teaches Humanities 9 and Humanities 10 at Boston Trinity Academy. Judy loves to travel especially with teenagers, and she has been to 41 countries. For 10 summers, she brought students to Nepal to work at a school for disabled children, an orphanage, and a widows’ school for basic literacy. When she is not teaching or traveling, Judy enjoys reading, sewing, cooking, and playing with Findlay, Winslow, and Davis Peteet.  She has been attending the Redeemer since moving to Boston 15 years ago.