Angel is a proud Puerto Rican born and raised in Greater New York, and is a founding member of the St Mary's House. He has lived in Ohio, Idaho, Montana, and Chicago before moving to Boston to work for Episcopal City Mission, where he uses his background in faith-based organizing to engage Episcopalians in the work of economic and racial justice. He first encountered faith-based community organizing while attending the Lutheran School of Theology of Chicago, from which he graduated with a Masters of Arts in Theological Study.

Chelsea has lived in five different intentional communities in Boston and Michigan. With a background in administration and bookkeeping, she has worked as an office manager/bookkeeper at a small church, an administrative assistant with an Episcopal farm ministry, and accounting assistant for the Grand Rapids Dominican Sisters, and co-coordinator of a community garden. She now works for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts as Assistant for Governance and Administration. 

Kyrah is the Director of New Life Relocation Consultants, an agency that provides both relocation and support services to residents in affordable and mixed income communities. She’s seen firsthand the impact that quality housing can have on people’s lives, and is excited by the way Creche lives in the intersection between housing justice and spiritual community. In addition to her community work, she’s a former co-warden at the Parish of St Paul Newton Highlands and has been deeply involved in immigrant justice and the Sanctuary movement.

Lauren works in the Development Office of Northeastern University, and prior to that as grants administrator, development assistant, and global mission administrator at the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. She believes in the sustaining power of Christian family in difficult times, and is excited to join in Creche’s lifegiving work! Her most interesting extracurricular activity is an annual quest to watch every Oscar-nominated film before the awards ceremony.

Mike is an award-winning independent architecture & planning professional with a particular specialty in historic preservation. Among other accomplishments, his work at 101 Beacon Street won a prestigious Preservation Achievement Award from the Boston Preservation Alliance, and he has chaired the Building Commission at Emmanuel Church for nearly a decade. In his spare time he is an accomplished ceramics artist, throwing pots at Mudflat Studios in Somerville, where he also serves on the board.

Michael has founded two intentional communities in Boston, one in Jamaica Plain and one in Dorchester, where he now lives with his wife and several housemates. He works as a software engineer for a firm designing autonomous vehicles. He’s interested in intentional community both as a politically and socially radical idea (sharing space and expenses in order to live more simply and sustainably) and as a form of Christian witness and spiritual formation, seeing voluntary interdependence as an antidote for our increasingly isolated and independent lives.

Rebekah lives in the Emmanuel House with Jamie, her fiancée, and Garie, her cat. Originally from Fremont, California, she moved to Massachusetts to study political science and clarinet performance and now works as the Property Manager of Allston Brighton Congregational Church. Rebekah loves to cook, sing, and play cards with her housemates, and she's excited to bring her experience to her work with the board so that more people experience the joy and intimacy of living in an intentional community.

Tom was first exposed to intentional communities through my time living and working with the monks of the Society of St John the Evangelist (SSJE) in Harvard Square. He then spent four years living in intentional communities before starting a household and family with his partner. After five years as the Guesthouse Manager of SSJE, he spent two years as the Children's & Family Minister at Grace Episcopal Church in Newton, before transitioning to life as an artist's spouse and nonprofit president.