What is it like to live in a place where you are both a minority and majority, where self-worth can be based on how you fit into a social hierarchy, where the divine is celebrated formally and informally almost every day, where joy and grief are public and where life stages are welcomed and celebrated as a part of daily life?

Pam Poon is a somewhat-retired attorney and mediator who moved to Bozeman in 1990. She began attending services at the UUFB after 9/11 in 2001 and became a member two or three years later. Pam served on the Governance and COM committees for a couple of terms and is currently on the Legacy Giving Committee. In addition to attending weekly services, she participates in one of the Chalice Circles and a nationwide UUA meeting called “Taproot,” which supports people of color in UU leadership.