Member, Board of Trustees
Term 2025-28
Margaret (Maggie) Nash grew up in Ashland, Ohio, and after decades in Washington, D.C., Wisconsin, and California, she and her wife Susan Harlow came to Cleveland in 2020. She was a UU member in California, where she was a Worship Associate and sang in the choir. At UUCC she has served on the Worship Team and sings in the Chancel Choir. She and Susan founded the Pride for All Ages group. Maggie has been instrumental in creating the Pride services each fall for the last three years.
Maggie is a historian and has published books and articles and given presentations on the history of women’s education, the history of music and art education, a history of gay purges in universities, and the creation of land grant colleges – a policy based on the dispossession of Native Americans from their land. Her most recent book, Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights, chronicles the legal case of an educator from Dayton, Ohio which was fundamental to the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. She served on the Board of the History of Education Society. As a faculty member at the University of California-Riverside, she served as an Equity Advisor and on the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. She has a B.Ph. from Miami University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
In Cleveland, Maggie enjoys time with her grand-niece Lucy, walking in the Metroparks, reading, and baking, and she and Susan love to travel.
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