Who walks with you
CISF Faculty & Educators
Our educators hold the highest certification ACPE awards and bring decades of clinical, doctoral, and military experience to your formation.
Leadership
Leadership
Rev. Dr. Rick Capezza, BCC
Executive Director, CISF
ThD, DWS, DMin, MDiv, STM • Board Certified Chaplain
Dr. Rick Capezza brings over 25 years of clinical spiritual care leadership, hospice administration, and theological education. He is an archbishop in the African Orthodox tradition and current Presiding Bishop of the Fellowship of Integral Spirituality. Recipient of the Order of Aaron and Hur medal, he leads CISF in cultivating wholehearted, reflective chaplaincy.
Rev. Karen L. Hutt
Educational Director, CISF
ACPE Certified Educator • Ordained UU Minister
Rev. Hutt is an ACPE National Faculty member, author of 'The Call to Care,' and a veteran of urban trauma centers, pediatric hospitals, and correctional chaplaincy. Her decades of clinical and supervisory experience shape a formation practice grounded in justice, presence, and the dignity of every person in suffering.
Instruction & Supervision
ACPE Certified Educators & Faculty
Rev. Joanna H. Tarr, MDiv, MS
ACPE Certified Educator
ACPE Certified Educator • M.Div. Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond • MS Art Therapy & Counseling, Eastern Virginia Medical School
Rev. Tarr is an ordained Cooperative Baptist Fellowship endorsed chaplain and ACPE Certified Educator who served as Director of Clinical Pastoral Education at Saint Luke's Health System, Kansas City. A United States Navy Reserve chaplain, she brings experience in art therapy integration, hospital ministry, and mission work in Russia.
Stacy Kenney, D.Min., BCC
ACPE Certified Educator
D.Min. • Board Certified Chaplain • UCC Ordained
Dr. Kenney is an ACPE Certified Educator at the Cleveland VA. Her doctoral research focused on the cultivation of wisdom in educator training and ethical accompaniment in complex institutional systems.
Rev. Matthew O'Brien
ACPE Certified Educator
M.Div. • APC Board Certified Chaplain • Brigade Chaplain (Major, USAR)
Rev. Matthew O'Brien is an APC Board Certified Chaplain and ACPE Certified Educator. He previously served as Lead Chaplain at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford and brings over 20 years of pastoral, hospice, hospital, and military chaplaincy experience.
Thomas Carter
ACPE Certified Educator
B.S. Electrical Engineering • M.Div. Golden Gate University • ACPE Certified Educator
Thomas is an ACPE Certified Educator at UC Davis. A graduate of Golden Gate University (M.Div.) and Prairie View A&M, he brings experience as a staff chaplain and congregational pastor alongside doctoral studies at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Nancy Wood
ACPE Certified Educator
M.Div. Harvard Divinity School • Smith College Graduate
Nancy is a Certified Educator with Norton Healthcare in Louisville, KY. Recipient of the ACPE Theory Paper of the Year award (2020) and former co-editor of the Journal of Reflective Practice, Nancy brings deep intellectual rigor and reflective discipline.
Supervisory Education
Certified Educator Candidate
Rev. Dr. Tim Mussche
ACPE Certified Educator Candidate
BCC, APBCC-HPC • Board Certified Chaplain
Rev. Dr. Tim Mussche, BCC, APBCC-HPC, is a board-certified pediatric palliative care chaplain at Ochsner in New Orleans and an ACPE Certified Educator Candidate. His formation has been shaped by Buddhist practice, indigenous wisdom traditions, psychoanalytic understanding, and grief theory.
Governance & Clinical Guidance
Program Advisory Groups
Our advisory groups bring together experienced board-certified chaplains, military leaders, health system practitioners, and theological educators to guide CISF’s curriculum, clinical standards, and professional formation.
Civilian Program Advisory Group
Hospital, hospice, correctional, and congregational leaders shaping civilian spiritual care.
Bishop John L. Selders Jr.
MDiv, DD
Bishop John Selders is organizing pastor of Amistad UCC and Associate Dean of Student Life at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
Rev. Kevin Raidy
MDiv
Rev. Kevin Raidy is an ordained priest and Sacramento area chaplain serving with Sutter Hospice and Kaiser Permanente.
Rev. Dcn Joshua Goulet
MDiv, MA, BCC
Joshua Goulet is an APC/CASC Board Certified Chaplain, CPE Supervisory Education Candidate, doctoral student, spiritual director, and senior hospital chaplain in New Hampshire.
Rev. Susann Estle
BCC
Susann Estle is a Board Certified Chaplain and CPE Training Supervisor-Educator whose clinical career includes correctional, hospital, and hospice chaplaincy.
Chaplain Jennifer Capezza
MDiv, BCC
Jenn Capezza is a Board Certified Chaplain with St. Luke's Regional Medical Center in the Boise, Idaho, metropolitan area.
Chaplain Melanie Monteclaro Pace
MSW, MA Religious Studies
Mel is a hospice chaplain in Northern California focused on spiritual and existential care at the end of life and the role of chaplains in interdisciplinary hospice teams.
Military Program Advisory Group
Active-duty, National Guard, and Reserve chaplains guiding spiritual care in defense contexts.
Rev. William Bevins
MDiv, MA, BCC
William Bevins is a Board Certified Chaplain, U.S. Navy Reserve Chaplain, CPE Training Supervisor-Educator, and doctoral candidate.
Chaplain Justin Lansdowne
MDiv, BCC
Justin Lansdowne is a Board Certified Chaplain, U.S. Army Chaplain, doctoral candidate, and CPE Supervisor-Educator with experience across military, healthcare, correctional, and congregational settings.
Rev. Robert Dunbar
MDiv
Rob Dunbar is an Air National Guard chaplain, pastor, and military family-readiness leader with theological training through Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
Chaplain Jared Anderson
MA, MDiv, BCC
Jared Anderson is a Board Certified Chaplain serving with the Utah Army National Guard and has worked across military, healthcare, corrections, university, hospice, and disaster-response settings.