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Students and Staff
Student Leadership | Canterbury House Staff
Student Leadership
Canterbury House provides education experiences and supports
the development of student leaders. Members of our Student Vestry, listed below, are responsible for outreach, worship, and evangelism, and for maintaining Canterbury House as a visible and effective student organization at the University of Michigan. Students are also involved in leadership in the House, in the Diocese of Michigan, and in the national church by serving on the Canterbury House Board of Trustees, participating in internship programs,
serving as representatives to the Diocesan Convention and as organizers
of Province V ministry conferences and the church’s national
Young Adults Festival.
 Iverson Bell
Iverson is a Ph.D. student studying electrical engineering (EE). He was born in Atlanta, GA and earned the B.S. degree in EE from Howard University in 2009 and the M.S. degree in EE from The University of Michigan in 2011. His research areas of interest are plasma electrodynamics, electric propulsion, and systems engineering.
He is passionate about social justice, diversity, and education. |
 Chloe Bergsma-Safar
Chloe is in her fourth year of college (but, fortunately, is not a senior yet because she transferred from Kalamazoo College and took a little time off to work and travel before returning to school). She's majoring in Spanish because she fell in love with Argentina when she was an exchange student there in high school, but hopes to some day use it to either teach or help immigrants in this country. In her free time, she loves to listen to NPR, go for long walks, and shop at the food co-op. |
 Clara Bosak-Schroeder
Before coming to Ann Arbor in 2008 Clara lived in Berkeley, California,
where she was both radicalized and Christianized. Now she is a PhD candidate
in Classics studying Greek and Roman ethnographies and Greco-Roman
ideologies of the natural world. When she's not working in Angell Hall or
praying at Canterbury House, Clara enjoys reading, writing, cooking, baking,
photography, wild-food gathering, and Torah study. |
 Katie Bush
Kathleen fell in love with water along the shores of Seneca Lake at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY where she graduated in 2006 with a B.S. in Biology and Environmental Studies and a minor in mathematics. Immediately following graduation she spent a month traveling around Siberia’s vast Lake Baikal, then departed for Demark two months later. As a Fulbright Scholar in Copenhagen (2006-2007), Katie investigated the ecotoxicologic effects of pyrene on phytoplankton communities under varying nutrient regimes, simultaneously succumbing to the easy-going Danish way of life. In 2007 her passion for water brought her to the heart of the Great Lakes Region. At the School of Public Health, her interests revolve around the impact of water quality on human and ecosystem health in a changing climate. During the summer of 2009 she worked and studied in Chennai, India, observing first hand the health effects of poor water quality and a lack of sanitation. While there, she investigated the relationship between extreme weather events and hospitalization. She also helped organize the first international conference jointly sponsored by the UM Center for Global Health, CDC, and ICMR to be held in Goa, India in August 2009. Katie also enjoys to swim, bike, and run - sometimes in that particular order. Other interests include hiking mountains, baking cakes, and taking photographs.
You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi |
 Scott De Orio
Scott is a PhD student in History and Women's Studies at the
University of Michigan. The story of how Scott first came to
Canterbury House is adorable. A devout agnostic, Scott came out of the
closet about nine years ago while his brother Drew was in undergrad at
Michigan. A devoted brother, Drew decided to abandon the homophobic
evangelical campus church he attended for greener pastures, and he
brought Scott to C-House for Jazz Mass. |
 Deena Thomas
As a doctoral student at the School of Public Health, Deena is studying the effects of Lead poisoning on the health of children in Mexico City, Mexico, and Chennai, India. On any given day, you can find her doing the usual graduate school-ish things: reading, writing, ingesting caffeine and restoring God’s kingdom one statistical analysis at a time. (The latter is a shout-out to Deena’s reformed undergraduate training at Calvin College.) In her spare time, Deena likes to read, bike, and spend time with friends and family. She has attended Canterbury House since 2008, and she is excited about this opportunity to serve on the Student Vestry of this warm, open and radical ministry. |
Canterbury House Staff
 Reid Hamilton:
Reid Hamilton is the Chaplain of Canterbury House because he loves everything
the University environment has to offer, from bright and interesting
people to ivy-covered libraries to smoky dives. Poet, musician and scholar,
he is most interested in things he has not seen before.
Before becoming a priest in 1998, Reid jumped out of airplanes, practiced
law, got married, got divorced, and got married again - permanently this
time! Reid has two children and has spent nearly half of his life in
one school or another. He is passionately committed to justice
and civil rights. His wife, Deb (originally from Detroit), also loves
music and social activism. Reid and Deb enjoy cooking together
and conducting bold culinary experiments on their friends.
Born in Joplin, Missouri, Reid has lived in Nashville, in North Carolina,
in Atlanta and Kansas City before at last making his way north. In his
life as a priest he has served as Assistant Rector of St. Paul’s
Church, Kansas City, Missouri, and as Rector of Christ Church in Kent,
Ohio – home of Kent State University – where he encouraged
a parish-based campus ministry.
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Matt Endahl:
Since 2007, Canterbury House Music Director Matt Endahl has enjoyed the flexibility of post- undergraduate, pre-familial life. His prime focus, music, has acted as a gateway to other
interests including history, religion, and government.
Though trained as a jazz musician, Matt's musical focus has often been in
more experimental territories. An early interest in and identification with
the jazz avant-garde of the 1960's led to a cautious respect for the
traditions and conventions of musical styles, and an appetite for the (often
bizarre) deviations from such traditions. His work as the music intern at
Canterbury House, under the tutelage of Stephen Rush and Reid Hamilton, gave
him first-hand experience in placing radical music alongside radical
theology.
Matt has taught jazz piano privately since 2006 and at Hillsdale College
since 2008. He is involved with the noise/experimental scene and recently
toured with guitarist Christopher Riggs, with whom he has recorded several
works.
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Kathleen
Peabody:
Kathleen,
office manager at Canterbury House since January 2005, spent the
previous 20 years caring for family and running her home
transcription business. Kathleen was born, raised, made it through 12 years
of Catholic school, had a lot of fun, worked, married, had
her first son and got divorced in Detroit. She moved to
Ann Arbor in 1975, became active in the open schools
of Ann Arbor and with Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice.
She graduated from EMU in 1980. She married Michael
in 1981 and had two more children, now both in college. Kathleen
also has two (perfect) grandchildren. A
couple of highlights have been the joyful and gut-wrenching
effort of co-founding the public high school, New School,
1996-2000 and meeting Bishop Tutu in 1999 and again at Canterbury House in 2008. She is a weaver and also an active
member of Ann Arbor Friends Meeting and the Anti-militarism Working Group of Michigan Peaceworks. Kathleen loves her job at
Canterbury House and is happiest when
camping with Mike in the north woods.
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Rachel Mazer:
Rachel Mazer came to Ann Arbor in the fall of 2010 with a hunger to be a part of a large musical community, and she found it when she became the Concert Series Coordinator here at Canterbury House. She feels very fortunate to be a part of this special community connected through beautiful music. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is now pursuing a dual degree in jazz saxophone and LS&A at the University of Michigan. She loves being introduced to new music at Canterbury House, so feel invited to send her an email with your demo if you want to play a show here!
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tephen Rush:
Canterbury House Faculty Advisor Dr. Stephen Rush is a Professor of Dance and Performing Arts Technology at the University of Michigan, where he works with students from music, dance, art, and engineering. He is also the director of the Digital Music Ensemble, and the Music Director of the Dance Department. Trained at the Eastman School of Music under Samuel Adler and Gunther Schuller, Rush's music has been performed worldwide, including recent performances in Japan, Chile, Germany and England. His work includes every traditional medium (three operas, symphonic/chamber works, three concertos), and have been performed by the Detroit and Warsaw Symphonies, and members of the New York Philharmonic. He has many recordings to his credit, and collaborated with avante-gardists such as Pauline Oliveros, LaMonte Young, Roscoe Mitchell and Peter Kowald. Stephen Rush was Music Director of Canterbury House from 1998 to 2009, and has led liturgies at National Episcopal Conferences in Texas, New York, Connecticut and North Carolina, including services at Christ Church Wall Street and in collaboration with Desmond Tutu. He and Reid Hamilton are the co-authors of Better Get It In Your Soul: What Liturgists Can Learn From Jazz, comparing liturgica planning and execution to the performance of modern Jazz, with reference particularly to Ornette Coleman's Harmolodic theory. |
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