Stef Grossano (she/her) is a facilitator, transformative justice practitioner, organizer, and aspiring minister. She was raised in New Jersey and has been living in Boston since 2012 when she moved here to attend Boston University. Stef will graduate with her Master of Divinity degree and a certificate in Religion and Conflict Transformation from Harvard Divinity School in May 2025.

Before graduate school, Stef worked in prison education and civil legal aid. Guided by Isaiah’s call to free the captive and Jesus’ solidarity with the outcast, Stef is committed to building a world in which conflict and harm are responded to with accountability and repair instead of punishment and exclusion. During graduate school, Stef supported organizations in adopting restorative practices, completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Brigham and Women's Hospital and most recently, served as a seminarian at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.

Having been raised Catholic and eventually striking out on her own spiritual path that has included Unitarian Universalism, various Christian traditions, and the indigenous spiritualities that undergird restorative justice, Stef is dedicated to creating religious and spiritual communities where all can belong. She believes that church should be a place where we can remember our fundamental interconnection and belovedness.

When she is not working with First Church Somerville to build the Beloved Community, you can find Stef making elaborate meals for her housemates, running on the esplanade, or doing improv.