The Rev. Mary Margaret Earl recently was named Executive Director and Senior Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry. She had spent the previous 10 years at McAuley Ministries, a faith-based nonprofit in Providence, RI that provides food, shelter and clothing to those who were homeless or at risk of becoming so. She also is immediate past present of the Board of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless, and served on the Pro Bono Advisory Board, which brings together large Providence law firms and undeserved communities in need of free legal assistance.