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Traveling to the Khasi Hills First UU Forum Speaker: Shelley Ross has been a member of First Unitarian Church for almost 30 years and part of the Khasi Hills Partnership Team since its inception. After many years of waiting for “the right time,” she traveled to northeast India in the fall of 2025 to visit … Continue reading First UU Sunday Forum 4/19/26
First UU’s Sunday Forum on March 15, 2026, at 9:00 am-10:15 am is “PIIN’s Call to Action on Immigrant Support in Pittsburgh”. It will be led by Kathleen Rueppel, Chair, PIIN Immigration Task Force,e with Special Guest, Dr. Joan Harvey. The Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network (PIIN) is focusing on changing immigration policy, complementing the direct … Continue reading First UU’s Sunday Forum “PIIN’s Call to Action on Immigrant Support in Pittsburgh”
03/01/2026 -9:00 AM –Schweitzer Room, or on-line A Discussion of Alzheimer’s Disease Speaker: Long-time congregation member Nicholas Izzo, Ph.D. is a research biologist with expertise in cell-based assay development and drug discovery.Nick earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Virginia. He conducted post-doctoral training at … Continue reading First UU Sunday Forum Speaker Series
The Homestead Acts of the 1860s and the Broken Promise of “Forty Acres and a Mule” Speaker: Rev. Dr. Dale B. Snyder Sr., who has served Pittsburgh Bethel AME Church since 2019, is a man of diverse accomplishments, with over 30 years of pastoral, entrepreneurial, and management experience. He is a US Army veteran with … Continue reading Sunday Forum 2/15/26
Social Justice in Pittsburgh in Historical Perspective The Speaker: Daniel Holland, PhD, is the 2025-2026 Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for African-American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) in the History Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Dan’s recent professional positions Director of Research and Policy for the Lower Marshall-ShadelandDevelopment Initiative on Pittsburgh’s North Side, and … Continue reading Sunday Forum
