Ryan Sommers Dowell Baum

LGBTQ Community History
Written By Mary Green-Warnstadt

Ryan Sommers Dowell Baum (They/Them/Theirs) was born in Albany, New York in 1983 and spent most of their childhood in the Gilderland, New York area. They attended West Mir Elementary, Farnsworth Middle School and Gilderland Central High School. They graduated from New York University with a degree in drama and attended seminary at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California where they graduated with a Master of Divinity. They were ordained through United Church of Christ in Oakland, California. In 2012 Ryan accepted an invitation to pastor First Congregational Church in Sioux City, which they served until December 2019.

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