The Rev. Heather Barta
Heather serves as the Coordinator of Province V. In that role, she works to connect people to people and people to resources. She works to build networks around passions and ministries. The work of the province is to connect people to one another and then build networks of support. The networks that form around these ministry areas provide points of connection and gathering, both in-person and on-line.
She’s a priest in the Diocese of Eastern Michigan and lives with her husband Henry and their 2 dogs and a cat in Holly. For fun, she reads, plays table top games, watches TV, knits, and cross stitches.
Sophie Grosserode
Sophie Grosserode is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago Master of Divinity program. She works as a seminarian for programming at University of Chicago’s Brent House and a children’s minister in the Chicago area. She is an alum of Tyson House at the University of Tennessee and is preparing to become a resident chaplain at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
Will Harron
Will is the Provincial Coordinator for the Episcopal Province of New England (Province 1). Will got his start in young adult ministry serving as an Episcopal Service Corps fellow in the Life Together Community, and then studying for his Master in Divinity at the Boston University School of Theology while working with Boston-area campus-ministries and parish-based young adult ministries. From 2020-2024 he was the network organizer for the Young Adult Ministry Network in the Diocese of Western Massachusetts, working with young adults and people who minister with young adults to build a diocese-wide support system for young adult ministry. In his spare time he loves backpacking, singing with the Sacred Harp community, and engaging in theological mischief.
Shannon Kelly
Shannon is currently serving on the Presiding Bishop’s Staff as the Officer for Young Adult and Campus Ministries and Grant Director for the Camino Project for The Episcopal Church. Shannon’s passion and vocation has focused on advocating for and ministering with children, youth, and young adults through the churches she has served and through the communities in which she has lived. Since 1998 she has served in congregations in California and New York, served as a Chaplain at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and on the Diocesan Staff as Assistant to the Bishop for Christian Formation in the Diocese of Milwaukee. She wrote and edited God of My Heart, a book of prayers written by youth, for youth. She lives MA with her husband and their son.
Kevin Matthews
Kevin has been the Campus and Young Missioner at St. Mary’s House in Greensboro, North Carolina for the past 18 years, serving UNC, Greensboro and two other small colleges. He grew up in the youth ministry of the Episcopal Church and worked at a hotline/drop-in center before going to seminary. While working in the academic side of Duke University, he realized his passion was really the pastoral side of campus and quickly moved to a chaplain position. As he prepares to retire this year, his focus has been revitalizing/reinventing campus ministries in the post Christian world. Merlin, his 75ib golden doodle, helps any way he can.
Allen Wakabayashi
Allen serves as Chaplain at the Episcopal Church at Princeton, a church serving the campuses of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary. After many years serving in campus ministry in the Evangelical world, Fr. Allen felt irrevocably drawn into the Anglican tradition and was later ordained as a priest. He was born and raised in Chicago and grew up in an active Japanese American church community. When he is not serving on campus, Fr. Allen enjoys getting out on local ponds and lakes to do a little bass fishing. He is married to his wife, Diane, who is also an ordained priest.