Rev. Dr. Marisa Egerstrom is the pastor of Florence Congregational Church. She is also a trained spiritual director through Still Harbor, based in Boston, and created the Protest Chaplains during the Occupy movement, sparking the now-widespread “movement chaplaincy” approach to interfaith spiritual care in protest. After earning her seminary degree at Harvard Divinity School, she was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 2017 and completed her PhD in American Studies in 2021. Part of her academic work on the history of American torture practices examined religious abuses in Guantanamo Bay, underscoring for her the importance of deeply rooted spiritual practice in confronting injustice and oppression. Her passion is to make connecting with the sacred possible and practical for people who don’t identify as religious.