Naomi Kooker, is a multimedia award-winning journalist and producer whose eye for detail and truth-seeking cut to the core to tell compelling stories. Her collaboration with filmmaker Lindsay LaPointe earned the duo an award for their documentary short, Making Mill Town. Naomi’s stories have appeared in The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Bon Appetit, TimeOut Boston travel guide, Yankee Magazine, and Wine Spectator.

Naomi is an assistant professor of journalism, writing and communication at Regis College in Weston, Mass. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction Writing at Bay Path University, a Master of Arts in Heritage Studies at Regis College, and her Bachelor of Arts in English at Drew University. As an outsider to the Unitarian Universalist experience, yet a PK (preacher’s kid in the Methodist denomination), Naomi is uniquely qualified to bring balance to and foster the Why Are You You? storyline for universal emotional appeal.