05/21/2026
For nearly two decades, President Serene Jones has helped shape Union Theological Seminary into a place where rigorous scholarship, moral courage, public engagement, and spiritual imagination could coexist without compromise.
Last night, students, alumni, faculty, staff, trustees, and friends gathered at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC to celebrate her extraordinary leadership and the communities she helped form along the way.
Thank you, Serene, for reminding generations of leaders that theology belongs in public life, that intellectual work can still be rooted in humanity, and that institutions can be transformed through vision, courage, and care.
