Scott Fitzgerald
Leader (President)

Scott was raised a Unitarian Universalist and has been actively involved in UU church life for well over 50 years. Over the years Scott has filled many roles at many UU churches; newsletter editor, board member, Sunday school teacher, youth advisor and of course, Coffee Guy. Currently Scott is the editor of our Newsletter and runs our website.

Lannie MacAndrea
Coordinating Circle Delegate

I grew up in San Bernardino, CA, and ended up in Spokane by way of San Diego, Huntington Beach, and Pullman, WA

At San Diego State, I majored in picketing Safeway for refusing to hire Black kids, playing Bridge, rock and roll, and English. I fell for a football player whom I married probably because John F. Kennedy spoke at his graduation. We had lots of fun times, some not so fun times, but best of all three amazing children.

In 1969, I landed in Pullman with two-year old Kathleen and six-month old Jeff; Elizabeth was born the next summer. We spent seven fabulous years at WSU.

Now, mature enough to pay attention in colllege, I earned an MFA degree in Creative Writing, Poetry.

After losing my Presbyterian—and I thought all faith—I became interested in the UU world, particularly in its work against systemic racism and the willful oppression of Black and Indigineous people.

I love our church, all my friends and those still to be made! I’m excited for the opportunity to work with you as we live into the vision of INUUC and become a community of wholeness.

Stephanie Samson

In 2010 I joined our partner church group and right away started planning a trip the next year to visit our partners in Transylvania. Since then, I have led a couple of travel groups to our Partner Church in Felsőrákos and currently planning another trip in September of this year. I look forward to our new church being in partnership with a new church in Transylvania. In 2017 I was the Local Area Coordinator for General Assembly which was held in June in Spokane which was an opportunity to meet UUs from across the nation.

I was a charter member of INUUC and have been actively involved in our new community. I have served four years on soul weaving, three years on stewardship, three years on UU connections, and three years as an INUUC/Westminster liaison.

Erin “Po” Popelka
Communication

Po is a founding member of INUUC and the chair of the LGBTQ+ Circle. She is also a reader, writer, athlete, and mental health counselor. In addition, she brings professional experience working in environmental nonprofits, healthcare, and education, including a robust facilitation and event planning background. The thread that connects all of her work is authentic connection; she honors the UU first principle of the worth and dignity of each human and strives to live that value in her professional work, her writing, and her counseling practice. She looks forward to cultivating authentic connection as part of the INUUC Governing Circle.

Bill Morkill
Delegate to Finance Circle

• Quit the Episcopalians at age 13. Without a faith community until discovered UU. 
• Worked removing lungs from fryers at a poultry processing plant just out of high school.
• Freshman year at Lewis and Clark College, Portland. 
• Worked in the mail room for Associated Press in NYC between freshman and sophomore years.
• Transferred to University of Washington. English Lit major. 
• Travelled the country end to end between junior and senior year.
• Graduated in ’69 and spend the next six months hitch hiking around western Europe. 
• Opened gift store in downtown Seattle at 23.
• Closed gift store, bought a Capitol Hill Seattle tavern at 25.
• Back to U of W for teaching certificate at 26.
• Sold tavern taught remedial reading at 27 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho followed by a year as a second grade classroom teacher. Met Barbara and we’ve been together ever since. 
• Quit teaching went into real estate for two years.
• Began work on novel, quit real estate, worked as dishwasher and bookstore clerk while finishing novel.
• Opened furniture store in Spokane and ran it for 15 years.
• Barb and I had two sons. They’re now mid-thirties and much more stable and focused than I’ve ever been. 
• Liquidated store and began investing on a personal level.
• Have read widely, play golf, fly fish, hike, bike, play chess , watch too much football and too much news on TV. 
• Wrote two more novels, a dozen children’s picture books (one published) discovered UU. 

I like welcoming people, the concept of community, the more inclusive the better, dislike authoritarians, narcissists (most of them), social and economic policies that harm the planet and its creatures.