Meet Our Staff
Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell
Rev. Michelle Yates
Albert Lawson
Sexton & Custodian
Mx. Emma Barry
Office Manager
(585) 546-2826
Work Week: Tue-Fri
In Church: Tue & Thu 9am-4pm
About Rev. Eileen Casey-Campbell (she/her)
Eileen Casey-Campbell (she, her, hers) is a Unitarian Universalist minister. She’s a long-time resident of Rochester, NY and graduate from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. Eileen served the Unitarian Universalist Church of Canandaigua, NY for seven years, and her previous work is in youth and young adult programming as well as church growth and membership.
She shares a life with her partner, Brian, their two children, and their goofy dogs. She is a certified yoga teacher and birth doula, who is also particularly called to social justice work, creative worship, and to ministry with youth and young adults. She loves the spiritual practice of creative work with her own hands–making art, bread, gardens, terrible pottery, and more.
Our church emails are listed below. If you have received an email from another email address that you suspect is not from us, especially any requesting immediate financial help or requesting you purchase gift cards, it is likely part of a phishing scam. Please feel free to check with us about any emails that claim to come from any staff or leadership of the church.
Any emails from our staff will have an email address ending in uuroc.org!
Note: Staff is advised to work from home if possible when temperatures exceed 85°.
They will be available via phone/email on those days.
About Rev. Michelle Yates (she/her)
Michelle grew up in the Buffalo, NY area. She earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Health & Human Services from SUNY Buffalo (UB) and her Masters of Divinity from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. Michelle is passionate about Lifespan Faith Formation, which to her means opportunities to explore wisdom, joy, and love in our world, in each other, and within ourselves. She aims to coordinate such opportunities for all age ranges in our spiritual community.
Michelle lives in Rochester with her husband Mike, three teenage step-children, a preschooler, and a small menagerie of animals. She looks forward to meeting with members of the community of all ages and helping match them up with a mode of faith exploration that works for them.
About Dr. Brock Tjosvold (he/him)
Brock has a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music from the Eastman School of Music. He is originally from Kimball, NE, and was previously living in Bloomington, IN.
Brock stays busy with a varied music career as a pianist, organist, chamber musician, vocal coach, and choral conductor. Brock enjoys attending concerts and movies in his free time. He also loves to hike and explore new areas while traveling.
About Mx. Emma Barry (she/her/they)
Emma grew up in the Rochester area and moved back home to Rochester after an exciting series of adventures in San Francisco and New Orleans. She has her BFA in graphic design, is obsessed with typefaces (currently trying to learn how to design them), and is passionate about helping and being a force for good in the world. She would describe herself as "queer as heck"!
Emma also works as a freelance graphic designer and photographer and is dedicated to social justice work, especially in the Rochester area. She enjoys donating platelets, often works as an election inspector in Monroe County, and enjoys volunteering at community cleanup events with Walking for Rochester.
When she is not working (or volunteering), she enjoys reading, cross-stitching, baking, gardening, kayaking, video games, board games, movies, and overall being a huge geek. She lives in Rochester with her partner and two rescue cats, the delightfully tetchy Malachai and the sweet-tempered Haplo.
About Dr. Claudio Espejo (he/him)
An Eastman School of Music graduate, Claudio is a Chilean teaching-artist based in Fairport, NY. Recent highlights include the performance of the complete Transcendental Etudes by Liszt, as well as joining the Cab Calloway String Orchestra to perform Mozart's D Minor Piano Concerto. Recently, he released "Romantic Piano Music," which includes some original works for piano.
His previous work was as the Director of the Piano Program at Cab Calloway School of the Arts. His duties included designing and coordinating the piano curriculum, including teaching 100 students from grades 6 through 12, fostering student performances, collaborations across departments, and preparing solo performances. While in Fairport, Claudio hopes to diversify his musical journey to incorporate more chamber music and choral music into his repertoire.
During his free time, Claudio participates in communities with a spiritual purpose. He is so excited to participate in ours!
About Justin Wilson (he/him)
Justin bounced around the Midwest growing up, settling in Rochester in 2014. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at Baldwin-Wallace University in 2010, where he co-edited a textbook with the History Department Chair, Philosophies of History: A Historiography Reader from Herodotus to the 21st Century.
After graduation, Justin served two years in an AmeriCorps program outside Chicago. He has held non-profit organization roles ever since, working primarily with under-served populations. Most recently, he was a Program Coordinator with CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), leading and training volunteers in advocacy work with neglected and abused children.
Justin comes to UURoc with a passion for social justice and human rights, leadership and teaching, helping and healing.
Justin is married to a husband, Mike, and they have a beagle, Newton. In his spare time, he enjoys baking, reading, and fiber arts (including crochet, sewing, and cross-stitch).
About Meghan Garvey (she/they)
Meghan is our 2026-28 Ministerial Intern, a seminarian at Meadville Lombard Theological School here to complete her ministerial education by serving as our student minister.
A convert to Unitarian Universalism while living in the Midwest as a queer young adult, Meghan identifies their theology as equal parts choir nerd, heretical Christian, and radical hospitality superfan.
Born and raised here in Rochester, and a long time member of First Unitarian, Meghan does not have adequate words to describe how excited she is to learn and grow with our community over these two years.
About Oliver Annon (he/him)
Oliver is from Santa Cruz, CA. He is pursuing a master's degree at the U of R in Signal Processing. He’s also on the U of R track & field team.
About Carol Williams (she/her)
Carol works in the nursery every Sunday morning with children six weeks to kindergarten age. She has a Red Cross certification in CPR and is interested in helping children develop their kindness skills. She teaches the children that they are important, and emphasizes life lessons, such as hands are for helping, not for hurting.
During the work week, Carol provides in-home day care. In her spare time, she enjoys collecting dolls, traveling to foreign countries, trying new recipes, and spending time with her four grandchildren.
About Kattie Brighon (she/her)
My name is Kattie Brighon. I am so grateful for the opportunity to be of service at this church with childcare.
I have always looked for more ways to learn, grow and be of service in my community since I could remember. I am just honored to be welcomed in and given the opportunity to work with such talented, smart, and kind kids.
This truly gives me something wonderful to look forward to and lights up my life, and I am truly grateful to be here!