Rev. Mary Katherine Morn is president and CEO of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization advancing human rights around the world.  Her UUSC tenure began in June 2018. Previously Morn served as senior minister of the UU Congregation of Fairfax in Oakton, Va., and grew small, mid-size, and large congregations in Texas, Alabama, Washington, D.C., Georgia, and Virginia. She and her husband, John Rakestraw, the director of Boston College’s Center for Teaching Excellence, now live in the Boston area and have one adult son. 

Rachel Gore Freed is a human rights lawyer, community organizer, and social justice advocate and educator with a wealth of domestic and international experience. As UUSC’s Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Freed leads the organization’s creative and effective approaches to advance human rights. Previously serving as the Senior Program Leader for UUSC’s Rights at Risk Program, Freed has spearheaded, planned, and implemented UUSC’s work responding to humanitarian crises and advancing the rights of people who are most overlooked or discriminated against in crises such as forced migration, large-scale conflicts, genocide, and natural disasters. Freed holds a bachelor’s degree with a focus in international development from the George Washington Elliott School of International Affairs and a doctor of law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School.