Marlin grew up in suburban Chicago. He received a BA in Sociology from Tulane University in 1990. Upon graduation, he relocated to Kyoto, Japan where he worked and studied for two years. Leaving Japan, he and a friend took a three year, 20,000 miles, around the world tour on mountain bikes. The trip took him through some of the world’s highest mountain ranges and through much of Asia, Eastern Europe, the middle-east and North America. He studied religion and the religious practices of many traditions and cultures around the world. After returning to the United States, he entered the Divinity School at Harvard University where he received his Masters in Divinity. He was ordained by the Unitarian Universalist Association in 1999. In 2000, at the age of 31, Marlin was called to All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa as their Senior Minister. During his tenure, the church has grown from 1000 to over 1800 adult members and serves 800 children and youth. Today, All Souls is the largest Unitarian Universalist congregation in the United States. Over the past decade, All Souls has become an official Welcoming Congregation for LGBT people and has since hired its first openly gay and lesbian ministers. Since 2008, the church has also grown from being a historically all-white church to becoming an intentionally multiracial and multicultural congregation. Marlin has served on a number of boards and commissions in Tulsa including Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries, the Knippa Interfaith Lecture Board, the Mayors Faith-based Advisory Board, The Superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools Faith-Leader Advisory Board, The Mayor and Police Community Coalition, and the John Hope Franklin Center Board. He has received numerous awards for his work for equality and justice locally, nationally, and internationally, including: -The Don Newby/Ben Hill Recognition Award from Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries -Grand Marshall for Tulsa’s LGBTQ Pride Parade -Russell Bennett Spiritual Inclusion Award from Oklahomans for Equality -Award for broad and visionary leadership in our city from the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice -Humanitarian of the Year (2010) by the Unitarian-Universalist United Nations Office -In 2014, Marlin was awarded an honorary doctorate by Phillips Theological Seminary and, was the keynote speaker at this year’s Interfaith Commemoration Service in honor of Martin Luther King Day.
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Monroe’s work in the Network started in 2014, as a founding staff member at Cradle to Career Network member ImpactTulsa, where he served as chief operating officer. Prior to ImpactTulsa, Monroe served as an aide to Tulsa’s mayor, was chief of staff to a university president, managed statewide adult career development programs for the Oklahoma State Department of Career and Technology Education, and directed business expansion programs for the Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce. Monroe has held two elected positions, first as a board of education member for Tulsa Technology Center, Oklahoma’s largest and oldest postsecondary vocational training institution. He currently serves in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. Monroe holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tulsa and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Oklahoma.
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Dr. Sharma is an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University in the School of Community Health Sciences, in the Counseling and Counseling Psychology department. Her research and academic focus is on providing trauma-informed care for vulnerable communities.
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