Here are the final two mentors we’ll be profiling on the blog before classes begin. They still represent only a small sampling of who’s available for spiritual direction through the Annand program.
Remember, no matter your faith tradition (even if you’re struggling to figure out where you stand on faith!) the Annand program is free and available to all students. 
The Rev. Dawn Stegelmann is an Episcopal priest who was ordained in February 2009. She is the curate at Trinity Church, Southport, CT. She graduated from YDS/BDS in 2008. A grateful beneficiary of the Annand Program, she has a special interest in spiritual direction, pastoral care and healing ministries. She has spent years as a facilitator of small groups for men and women. Topics have included spiritual formation, parenting, bereavement, marriage, life-threatening illnesses, suicide and aging. A 20-year resident of Darien, CT, Dawn is a wife and mother of three sons. She loves the outdoors, international travel, reading and writing.
The Rev. Jane Stickney, ordained in 1977, spent the first ten years of her ministry were in the United Church of Christ. Jane understands and is open to working with students from reformed and liturgical traditions. An Episcopal priest since 1987, she has served in large and small parishes. Jane received an STM in Spiritual Direction in 1987 from the Center for Christian Spirituality at General Theological Seminary, and served on the General Theological School’s summer staff as a small group supervisor between 1991 and 1997. Jane has served as an Annand Mentor since 1994 and became the coordinator of the program in 2005. Her husband is a UCC pastor and interim ministry specialist. They have a married daughter and a grandson. Jane is a weaver
[Ed. note: of some incredible stoles!] and has taught in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University: Psychology, Spirituality, and Celtic Art. She is interested in the value of creativity in a healthy spiritual life, writing, “This is an issue I often raise with students as they try to balance all the demands of life at Yale and as they look to their professional lives in the church.”
The Rev. Dawn Stegelmann is an Episcopal priest who was ordained in February 2009. She is the curate at Trinity Church, Southport, CT. She graduated from YDS/BDS in 2008. A grateful beneficiary of the Annand Program, she has a special interest in spiritual direction, pastoral care and healing ministries. She has spent years as a facilitator of small groups for men and women. Topics have included spiritual formation, parenting, bereavement, marriage, life-threatening illnesses, suicide and aging. A 20-year resident of Darien, CT, Dawn is a wife and mother of three sons. She loves the outdoors, international travel, reading and writing.
The Rev. Jane Stickney, ordained in 1977, spent the first ten years of her ministry were in the United Church of Christ. Jane understands and is open to working with students from reformed and liturgical traditions. An Episcopal priest since 1987, she has served in large and small parishes. Jane received an STM in Spiritual Direction in 1987 from the Center for Christian Spirituality at General Theological Seminary, and served on the General Theological School’s summer staff as a small group supervisor between 1991 and 1997. Jane has served as an Annand Mentor since 1994 and became the coordinator of the program in 2005. Her husband is a UCC pastor and interim ministry specialist. They have a married daughter and a grandson. Jane is a weaver [Ed. note: of some incredible stoles!] and has taught in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University: Psychology, Spirituality, and Celtic Art. She is interested in the value of creativity in a healthy spiritual life, writing, “This is an issue I often raise with students as they try to balance all the demands of life at Yale and as they look to their professional lives in the church.”
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Just wondering if any of the Annand Program mentors are people/women of color... thanks!
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Jane tells me that there are at least two folks in the Annand program who are people of color: Harlon Dalton and Allison St. Louis Both of these folks are a little on the busy side, so they don't run first-year groups, but they are available for one-on-one spiritual direction.
-Kate