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Vanessa Southern
Vanessa Rush Southern (born 1968) is an American Unitarian minister in New Jersey notable for increasing church membership〔 as well as being a progressive liberal advocate of issues such as reproductive health care options for women, diversity and racial tolerance, affordable housing including projects for Habitat for Humanity,〔 human rights,〔 and remembrance of civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King. She was minister of the Unitarian Church in Summit〔 from 2001 to 2014. She presided over high-profile weddings〔December 2, 2012, (Brenda Fulton, Penelope Gnesin ), The New York Times, accessed December 2, 2012〕 as well as local community discussions on topics such as diversity and tolerance and the "achievement gap" between low–income and high–income families. Her father was the director of an acting school in New York City called the School for Film and Television and her mother was a hematology technologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.〔 She was married in 1999 to Rohit Menzes.〔 She wrote a book entitled, ''This Piece of Eden.''
==Ministry==
Southern was minister of the Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington from 1996 to 2001.〔 During her years as minister in Summit, from 2001 to the present, congregation membership grew from 400 to 500 members, and children's education expanded to 200 members, according to a report in the ''Independent Press''.〔 The congregation supported relief efforts in Darfur, Haiti, New Orleans, Pakistan, Guatemala and elsewhere, as well as social action projects including tutoring sessions in an Irvington school, local food banks, a program entitled ''Summit Helping Its People'', a transition program for homeless people called ''Homefirst'', house-building efforts, and other charitable projects.〔 In 2010, Southern's congregation was honored by the Unitarian national assembly as being one of four "breakthrough congregations" in North America for increases in membership and charitable activity.〔 She was quoted in the ''Dallas News'' thanking utility workers from Texas who helped restore electric power in New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.〔November 7, 2012, Vanessa Rush Southern, Dallas News, quote=...I love men from Texas. My dad is a Texan. My grandfather came to be a Texan. All my uncles are Texan. Some of the most important men in my life are Texan. They are strong, capable, kind, wise, funny, irreverent and reverent, dedicated and protective men.... (In Sandy’s aftermath, a love letter to men from Texas ), Accessed November 9, 2012〕
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