#  Kate André 

Mennonite / Anabaptist Chaplain

 

 

 



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**Email:** [kate\_andre@harvard.edu](mailto:kate_andre@harvard.edu)   
**Address:** 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA 02138  
**Website:** [mennonitecongregationofboston.org](https://mennonitecongregationofboston.org)

Greetings! My name is Kate, and I am honored to be serving as Harvard's Mennonite Chaplain. I am also the pastor of the Mennonite Congregation of Boston. I have a heart for "meeting people where they are" in multi-faith chaplaincy, and have deep respect and empathy for the transformative, overwhelming, liberating, challenging, soul-searching experiences that often come with higher education.

I've had an eclectic spiritual and religious path to get here. After studying Music and Drama as an undergrad at UNC-Chapel Hill and pursuing performance in NYC, I attended Yale Divinity School where I earned an M.Div. and S.T.M. My master’s thesis focused on sketch comedy as a tool for authentic community-building in worship (and beyond). I also trained in multi-faith college chaplaincy with Yale University Chaplain emerita Sharon Kugler and served from 2013 to 2015 as the Director of Campus Ministry at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, CT, where I led domestic and international retreats and served students, faculty, and staff who represented a diverse array of religious traditions, spiritual philosophies, and worldviews. From 2015 to 2019, I taught World Religions, Philosophy & Ethics, and led the Upper School Campus Ministry program at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls’ school in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. I completed my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at Kripalu in 2015 and 40-hour Basic Mediation Training with the New York Peace Institute in 2017. I also served as a Chaplain Resident at The Mount Sinai Hospital from 2019 to 2020, completing my training in the height of the pandemic. From 2019 to 2025, I served as a Regional/Cohort Coordinator for Contemplative Leaders in Action, a young adult formation program in Ignatian spirituality and leadership, and in 2021 I helped to launch and lead CLA’s Virtual cohort and provided VoiceOver narration for the Office of Ignatian Spirituality's Advent and Lenten reflection series. Beginning fall 2025, I will also be pursuing a PhD at Boston College, focusing on the link between individual and collective spiritual formation and conflict transformation.

I have been married to my husband, Erol, since 2019, and we welcomed a son in 2020. When I am not busy with ministry, I enjoy exploring National Parks, checking out local historical sites (there are so many!), driving to the ocean (still a novelty for a gal like me who grew up in Ohio and Colorado), and serving as disc jockey to a musically eclectic preschooler.

Finally, I am passionate about the Anabaptist values of peace, justice, community, and simplicity, and about creating spaces where people can show up in the fullness of who they are: with their stories, questions, doubts, and passions, their sorrows, uncertainties, celebrations, and hopes. Please reach out if you'd like to have a chat over a cup of tea/coffee or take a stroll!



 

 

 





 

 

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