Elaine McArdle

1 month ago | uuworld.org | Elaine McArdle

When UUs convene this June in Baltimore, Maryland, for General Assembly 2025, Local Area Coordinator Valerie Hsu wants them to love her vibrant city as much as she does. That’s a big reason she was selected for the volunteer position for this year’s multiplatform GA, set for June 18–22 both online and in person. “So often when people go to a conference, they get home and feel that all they’ve seen is the inside of a convention center,” says LaTonya Richardson, GA and Conference Services director.

2 months ago | uuworld.org | Elaine McArdle

The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) joined more than two dozen Christian and Jewish religious denominations and associations on February 11 in filing a lawsuit against the Trump Administration’s new policy that allows immigration raids, arrests, and other enforcement actions at houses of worship. Filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., the case, Mennonite Church USA et al. v.

2 months ago | hls.harvard.edu | Elaine McArdle

Once a week, as a student in what is arguably the oldest ongoing clinical course at Harvard Law School, Isabelle Pride ’25 leaves her Cambridge apartment and takes the subway to Suffolk County Superior Court in downtown Boston. Pride, a budding litigator, spends the day observing trials and motions practice and assisting Judge Michael P. Doolin, an associate Superior Court justice, with research and writing for his judicial opinions.

2 months ago | hls.harvard.edu | Elaine McArdle

Last November, the State of Texas — which has a near-total abortion ban — sued a New York physician for prescribing abortion-inducing drugs to a Texas woman. Two months later, in the first criminal case of its kind, a grand jury in Louisiana indicted the same physician, Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter, for prescribing the drugs to a woman there. New York is one of eight states with a telemedicine abortion shield law that protect its physicians who assist women in abortion-restrictive states.

Nov 25, 2024 | gse.harvard.edu | Elaine McArdle

As one of 64 ninth graders in the inaugural class of the new Cristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School, in Seattle, Washington, where Katie Seltzer, Ed.M.’22, works and which opened its doors in August 2024, Aniya M. was vaguely aware the school had some sort of cellphone policy. But only after she began texting her mom during lunch — and got what she calls a “very polite” reminder to put her phone away lest it be confiscated — did she understand that phones are banned entirely during the school day.