Rev. Emily Linderman is a queer (Bi+), Board-Certified Chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains. She is also a spiritual director, facilitator, and certified meditation teacher (Shamatha-Vipashyana via the Open Heart Project). She was ordained to authorized ministry by the United Church of Christ in 2020 and is a member of the Open-Heart Project, an online Buddhist sangha with Tibetan/Vajrayana lineage. She holds a Master of Divinity from Seattle University’s School of Theology and Ministry and a Bachelor of Architecture from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Emily was born and raised in Michigan and trained as a chaplain resident, palliative care fellow, and certified educator candidate at Stanford Health Care from 2017 to 2022. She also completed the 9-month long, UCSF sponsored, Practice-PC: Interprofessional Continuing Education in Palliative Care for Practicing Clinicians in 2019. Emily loves collaborating on an interdisciplinary team pursing the highest quality of “full catastrophe”* living for all beings, singing, laughing, baking, and creating along the way.

Rev. Emily Linderman is a queer (Bi+), Board-Certified Chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains. She is also a spiritual director, facilitator, and certified meditation teacher...Read more