About
Gail Seavey

Gail Seavey is a crone and grandmother with a lifetime exploring the intersections between personnel power and the united states of trauma, sex and violence, spirit and bodies, mindfulness and feelings, culture, and the rest of nature.  In these intersections, she has experienced the power of relationships co-creating families, communities, and cultures.  In the spaces between the intersections, she had repeatedly experienced the co-creative forces of transformative healing and love.

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Gail grew up in the white suburbs of the ’50s, earned a BFA in 1971 from The Rhode Island School of Design in an industrial city with wide gaps between the rich and poor.  She worked as a sculptor and art educator co-founding Center and Main Women’s Cooperative Gallery in Gloucester, Massachusetts, during the ’70s and early ’80s.   As an artist, she became involved in feminist consciousness-raising and community organizing to educate and create laws that held people accountable for violence against women and children. 

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 She graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1990 and retired from Unitarian Universalist parish ministry in 2020.  As a minister, she co-created rites of creation, connection, and loss with an emphasis on storytelling.  Her community organizing expanded to include dismantling unjust economic systems and white supremacy culture.  She celebrated 50 years of marriage in 2019 to artist Jim Seavey and together, they raised two sons, Caleb and Ben.

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Education

• BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, 1971

• MDiv, Harvard Divinity School, 1990

• Date of Preliminary Fellowship (Parish), 1990

• Date of Final Fellowship (Parish), 1993

• Ordained 1990

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Employment

• 1990-1998 Minister
  White Bear UU Church 
  Mahtomedi, MN
   

• 1998-2005 Minister
  First Universalist Society 
  Salem, MA
   

• 2005-2020 Lead Minister
  The First UU Church of Nashville 
  Nashville, TN