Board of Trustees

Connect with the Board of Trustees by emailing board@southchurch-uu.org

Molly Cooper Campbell - Chair of the Board of Trustees

Molly is a Senior Lecturer in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of New Hampshire and Co-Director of The HUGEmanities Project for the College of Liberal Arts. She has worked in many grassroots movements for justice and equity as well as assisting in grant writing for organizations in need. Molly began attending South Church with her family around 2013 and joined soon after. Coming from diverse religious backgrounds and beliefs, they were grateful South Church provided a spiritual community aligned with their family values. She lives in Dover with her spouse Scott Campbell and two children Kiley and Zoey.  Molly taught in RE classes for a number of years and served as a Social Justice Associate for almost four years, serving as convener during the third year. Molly also worked with Meghan Bairstow, for two years, as Co-Organizer for the South Church Soup Kitchen. 

Laurie Bilby - Treasurer of the Board of Trustees

Laurie Bilby worked for nearly thirty years as an estate administrator for a Boston law firm, a job she now enjoys much more on a very part-time basis. She began attending South Church with her late wife, Fenn Duncan, around 2013, and they immediately became involved in Small Group Ministry.  In addition to continuing to serve often as a convener of covenant groups and a member of the Covenant Group Steering Committee, Laurie also holds deep appreciation for her deep and wide variety of experiences on the Committee on Ministry, the Annual Budget Campaign, Worship Associates, Coming of Age mentoring, Morning Poems, Table of Plenty in Kittery, and most recently, the Learning Associates.  Laurie also enjoys investing time in traveling, puttering in the garden, watercolor painting, volunteering with the Kittery Art Association, book group gatherings, and is an excellent practitioner of just hanging out with friends.

Charlotte Ramsay - Secretary of the Board of Trustees

Charlotte has been attending South Church since 2019. She is active in immigration work and was the co-leader of the volunteer team supporting an Afghan family in Portsmouth 2022-23 and is co-convenor of the South Church Immigrant Support Fund steering committee. She has been a UU for over 40 years and at her previous church in Canton, NY served as treasurer and later as President of Church Council. Charlotte enjoys public service and was on the Canton School Board and the Canton Village Board. A retired early childhood educator and school psychologist, she lives in Durham, NH where she is currently on the Durham Public Library Board. She enjoys gardening, walking, and spending time with her family, especially her 5 grandsons. Charlotte is excited about becoming more involved in South Church as a member of the Board.

Mark Eves

Mark Eves lives in North Berwick, Maine with his wife Laura and their three children: Elaina, Lucas and Naomi. Mark is the Executive Director of Woodfords Family Services, a Maine based non-profit organization working with children and adults with autism and intellectual disabilities. He has worked with community based non-profit mental health organizations for more than 20 years. Mark served in the Maine House of Representatives for 8 years from 2008-2016, four of which were Speaker of the House, advocating for a variety of social, economic, and environmental priorities. Mark has served as President of the Maine Association of Marriage and Family Therapy as well as serving on the Boards of York Hospital and the Maine Association of Community Service Providers. Mark and his family have been members of South Church since 2012 after being drawn to the children's Religious Education program, and finding a community where they can explore and grow in their spiritual journey together. 

Theo Wiegand

Theo Wiegand has been a member of South Church since 2015. He has been active in the South Church choir since joining and enjoys participating musically. In 2019, he the attended the Our Whole Lives training program and has been filling in as a facilitator here at South Church on a regular basis. He and his wife, Eleanor Kane, are the owners of Brasen Hill Farm in Barrington, NH. They live on the farm with their daughter Evelyn (1) as well as three dogs, two cats, and numerous farm animals. Theo joined the Board of Trustees in 2023 and looks forward to learning as much as possible about the South Church congregation. 

Matt Madeira

Matt Madeira and his wife, Martha Netsch, have lived in Portsmouth since the mid-1990s. They joined South Church in 2003 shortly after the arrival of their daughter and son. Since then, Matt has been an active member serving on various committees including Personnel, Endowment and Co-Chair of the ABC committee. In the greater community, Matt is actively involved with coaching a high school tennis team, fund raising for The Housing Partnership, and a volunteer for the Appalachian Mountain Club. Active sailors, Matt and Martha are proud members of the Bass Harbor Yacht Club. Professionally, Matt joined Kidder, Peabody & Co in 1979 as a trainee and has been in the financial service industry ever since. In 2016 he joined Steward Partners in Portsmouth as a Vice-president and Wealth Manager

Alyssa Murphy

Alyssa Manypenny Murphy and her family have been South Church members since shortly after they moved to Portsmouth in 2010. She has served as an RE teacher and RE Committee Chair, as a Coming of Age mentor, and on the Committee on Ministry. She is the past chair and current member of the Planning and Implementation Committee and convenor of Court Street Yoga. Alyssa is an architect and with Brian Murphy, her partner in all things, founded and leads the architecture practice Placework in Portsmouth. Their two daughters Eden (18) and Amelia (16) were raised in co-community with South Church – and have turned out pretty well!

Stacy Brown

Stacy Brown has been an active member of South Church since 2021, volunteering her time to support religious education programs. Professionally, she works in workforce development at ReVision Energy, an employee-owned solar energy company. Stacy resides in Newmarket with her husband, Bryan, their two children, Declan and Soryn, and their two dogs.