MUUSAN Action Team Chairs
Climate Action
Jill Linzee is a member of Midcoast UU Fellowship of Damariscotta. Her professional work has been in public folklore and ethnomusicology in both state and federal government (American Folklife Center, Smithsonian and the National Endowment for the Arts), and for non-profits. She’s worked for statewide programs in Florida, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Washington state, where her political advocacy efforts were more focused in the cultural arena. In 2016 she moved with her husband to Maine, and joined MUUSAN shortly thereafter, becoming Co-Chair of the Climate Change group in 2018. She enjoys playing and listening to music, hiking, birding, sailing, reading, traveling, and the company of friends and animals.
Democracy in Action
Betsy Williams is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, where she is an active member of their Working for Justice Steering Group. A life-long UU with a long and varied career in UU religious education, Betsy brings her passion for making connections between UU values and our everyday lives to social justice work. A former literacy and special education tutor, she works with Midcoast Literacy and Midcoast New Mainers Support Group as an ELL tutor and family support team member. This is Betsy’s first full year as a member of MUUSAN, which she sees as a vehicle for UUs to bend public policy toward valuing human dignity, protecting our democracy, and saving our planet. A nature-lover at heart, Betsy and her husband Glenn are winter condo-dwellers in Brunswick, where she enjoys skiing out her back door, and summer cottage-dwellers on Bailey Island where she enjoys sailing her wooden Turnabout and island hopping in Casco Bay.
Gun Safety Action Team
Lynn Ellis & Deborah Crump
Lynn Ellis & Deborah Crump
Housing and Homelessness Action Team
Naneen Chace-Ortiz & Jessica Glant
Naneen Chace-Ortiz & Jessica Glant
Wabanaki Sovereignty Ally Team
Meret Bainbridge has been a UU since 2001, and attends First Parish UU Church in Portland where she serves as co-chair of the Wabanaki Ally Team. She is a native of Germany, immigrant and dual citizen, lifelong pacifist, feminist, LGBT advocate, pagan, mom of four adult children and bonus children, and passionate gardener. She lives and works in Saco and loves her work as an acupuncturist and the independence of running her own business. Meret is the MUUSAN liaison to the Wabanaki Alliance Tribal Coalition and believes that re-wilding our environment and re-learning kinship from Native communities is our only way to save the human species on this planet