July Eliot 2026: "TBD" with Zr. Alex Kapitan

Program Information coming soon! 

Our speaker will be Zr. Alex Kapitan. Program title and info will be posted here soon! 

Zr. Alex Kapitan (ze/per) is a lay community minister, educator, editor, consultant, and activist. A queer and nonbinary lifelong Unitarian Universalist, ze does interfaith LGBTQ work and supports congregations in becoming places of radical welcome for all.

 Alex is the co-founder of the Transforming Hearts Collective, an organizing ministry that both supports spaces for LGBTQ people to access resilience, healing, and spirituality and resources faith communities and other groups for the work of radical welcome and culture shift. As part of that work ze co-created the program Trans Inclusion in Congregations for UU congregations, which has been engaged with by hundreds of congregations across the continent. Alex is also the founder of Radical Copyeditor, an anti-oppressive language project that helps people understand, among many other things, why using “they” singularly is a revolutionary and essential act. 

 Alex worked for many years at the UUA’s national office supporting Welcoming Congregation, anti-racism, and social justice projects, and is also a past steering committee member for TRUUsT, the organization of trans UU religious professionals. Ze lives in western Massachusetts with per partner Teo Drake and a menagerie of furry and feathered friends.

Additional Activities

Morning program is just one aspect of July Eliot!

Other activities include: sports, swimming in the lagoon, boating, puzzles, board games, group games, art projects, writing activities, worship, social justice discussions, hikes in the woods, and more.

One of the highlights of July is music: singalongs on the Inn Porch, songs and jokes at Firelight, coffee house, a concert and talent show. Rock band practice every day leads up to a high energy dance on the last night.