Rev. Dr.Nina Grey became the minister emerita of First Unitarian Church of Chicago in 2011 after serving the congregation as its senior minister for 12 years. Before coming to first Church, Rev. Nina served congregations in Wakefield Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and the Unitarian society of Germantown in Philadelphia. Choosing to take a three-quarter time ministry for five years before full retirement, River Nina served the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman Montana.

Rev. Nina received her bachelor of science in elementary education with a concentration in music from Central Connecticut State College. While serving as the office manager of the Mount Tom ski area in Holyoke, Nina was called to ministry and pursued her master of divinity at Andover Newton Theological School, where she received an award in ethics. Her Doctor of Ministry thesis and project was focused on pluralism. The thesis title is “The One and the Many: embracing pluralism in congregational life.”

In 2016, Nina moved from Bozeman to Columbia South Carolina to be near her sister and brother-in-law and nearer to her daughter and her daughter’s family, who lived in New York City. In the seven years she lived in Columbia she was very active in social justice endeavors, as well as doing pulpit supply preaching in South Carolina and Georgia.

In December, 2023 Nina’s daughter Kim Cullen and her son-in-law David Taylor welcomed Nina to live with them in Brooklyn, New York. Their three generational family home also includes granddaughter Hannah Cullen and Hannah’s husband, Ian Noel.

Having been a climate activist as well as an advocate for women’s rights, immigration, voting rights and other issues from 2013 on, Nina is continuing her climate activism in Brooklyn and New York City as a member of the Climate Reality Project, Metro New York chapter. She finds the company of her family and the beauty of the neighborhood lift her spirits. She has joined the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn and the Park Slope Jewish Center. She continues her love of reading, singing and dancing, and finds cuddling with the family dog Hudson to be a joy.

At now 84 years of age, writing in her ever-expanding memoir entitled “The Middle Way” – intended for her own personal development and possibly for her family – is Nina’s pathway for reflecting on her life and ministry through the years.