About the chaplain
Anne Klaeysen, Religious Life Adviser for the Ethical Humanist Chaplaincy at Columbia University and Barnard College, also serves as Leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. She was the first Humanist Chaplain at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY and was Leader of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island from 2002 to 2008. A graduate of The Humanist Institute (Class X), she also co-mentored Class XV and is now co-Dean of the Institute. Klaeysen holds a Doctor of Ministry degree in pastoral care from Hebrew Union College, Master’s degrees in Business Administration from New York University and in German from the State University of New York at Albany, and studied at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany. She is a long-standing member of the AHA.
About the chaplaincy
Klaeysen interned with the chaplaincy a decade before taking over the program for former adviser Boe Meyerson. Ethical Culture has a long history at Columbia University: Founder Felix Adler taught philosophy there, as did several of the first generation of Ethical Culture Leaders. His son-in-law, Horace Friess, is responsible for starting the Religion Department. The chaplaincy hosts lunches and discussion groups, offers opportunities for community service (for example, volunteering at the NY Society’s homeless shelter), and participates in interfaith activities on campus and off. Klaeysen is also available for life passage ceremonies and pastoral counseling.
For More Information
Office hours on Columbia campus: Wednesdays in Room 101 of Earl Hall, other times by appointment
NY Society at 2 West 64th Street on the corner of Central Park West, Room 502
website: www.nysec.org
email: ak3212@columbia.edu
phone: 917-446-9752
Facebook page: Ethical Humanism Chaplaincy at Columbia University & Barnard College
