Welcome! I’m Nick (he/him).

I work as a chaplain at MarinHealth Medical Center. Endorsed by the Religious Naturalist Association and the Humanist Society, I take a pluralistic and relational approach to spiritual care. My practice is informed by pragmatist philosophy and by evidence-based assessment tools that promote healing, adjustment, and positive religious and existential coping during moments of transition and loss. In all my encounters, I work toward a felt sense of possibility amid life's given conditions. I am also committed to advancing professional chaplaincy through engagement with emerging models of care at the end of life as well as the academic study of race and religion.

I completed my clinical training in chaplaincy at UCSF Medical Center, McLean Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Before entering chaplaincy, I worked as a scholar of religion and of religious ethics. My research and teaching focused on Africana and African American religions, the history of Black religious thought, and the dynamics of racial formation and self-fashioning. I earned a PhD in religious studies at Brown University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University.

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