Staff

	Reverend Nancy Victorin-Vangerud, Ph. D. Chaplain and Director of the Wesley Center E-mail Nancy Victorin-Vangerud 651-523-2750  Reverend Nancy Victorin-Vangerud, Ph.D., is University Chaplain and Director of The Wesley Center for Spirituality, Service and Social Justice. She was ordained in 1988 as an elder in the Minnesota Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. She holds degrees from Texas A&M University, Scarritt College and Vanderbilt University, and has served several congregations in Minnesota. She has also served as Director of the ARC Retreat Community, in Minnesota, and taught for 6 years on the faculty of Murdoch University in Western Australia. Nancy is interested in sustainable spirituality--an integration of "head, hands and heart" through the practices of Christian centering prayer, a contemporary theological imagination, arts and care for Earth.
	Rabbi Esther Adler Associate Chaplain E-mail Esther Adler 651-523-2867 Rabbi Esther Adler is Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life. She also is Associate Rabbi at Mount Zion Temple. She was ordained at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion in 1987. She also holds degrees from Yale University and UCLA. Rabbi Adler has served in many different settings, including academia, synagogues, schools, and hospital and nursing home chaplaincy. She is particularly interested in the Jewish textual tradition, liturgy, and Jewish-Christian relations.
	Megan Dimond Coordinator of Religious and Spiritual Life Programs E-mail Megan Dimond 651-523-2315   Megan Dimond is the Program Coordinator for Religious and Spiritual Life.  She has degrees from the University of St. Thomas in Theology and Elementary Education with an emphasis on Social Studies.  She spent a year at the University of Wales studying Religious Experience.  Her main areas of interest are multifaith and interfaith dialogue, celebrating the many forms of spirituality .