Rachael Pettengill 

Originally from Haverhill, Massachusetts, Rachael earned her Bachelors in Comparative Religion from Nyack College and her Masters in Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary in New York where she lived for nine years. She returned to the Boston area in 2009 as an intern at Grace Episcopal Church in Medford where she still serves on staff. She is also in the ordination process with the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.

This past year she has helped out with the Chaplaincy Office, working with an amazing group of students interested in Interfaith Social Action as well as with Protestant Worship on Sundays and Noonday Prayers on Wednesdays. She also spent much of her time in conversation with many Protestant students to learn from them their desires in forwarding the Protestant Chaplaincy and has come up with a new vision that includes focusing in five different areas: worship, spiritual formation, fellowship, social justice outreach, and leadership development. And since it is an inter-denominational chaplaincy, we will have a rotation of local clergy each Sunday including Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalist, and Evangelical.