Anthony Jenkins
Anthony is a proud native of DC/Maryland/Virginia who also called upstate NY home for a significant chunk of his childhood. Among many other things, Anthony is a 19-year practitioner of daily meditation, a spiritual alchemist, an interfaith contemplative, a pescetarian (mostly), a lover of bone-dry red oaky peppery wines, a highly kinesthetic learner, a poster child INFP, an Enneagram 9, a surprisingly ineffective bowler, a decent Spades partner, and a tenured Ravens/Orioles/Wizards/Capitals fan.
Anthony also serves as a military chaplain in the US Air Force. Previously, he served for 10 years in the U.S. Army – 5 years in Army Bands, and 5 years in the Army’s Chaplain Corps. He has the dubious distinction of having held the two military ranks with arguably the least amount of in-house prestige – E-4/Corporal and O-1/Second Lieutenant.
Anthony earned his Bachelors in Music (Bass/Performance) from Morgan State University in 2005. He has been blessed to work as a professional bassist for musical artists all across the genre-spectrum regionally, nationally, and internationally since 1999. Anthony earned his Masters of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School in May 2017. He was ordained in October 2017 at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia (MD), where he served for 7 years as both Intern Minister and Assistant Minister. He has also served as a chaplain at Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital in Baltimore.
Anthony, his beloved bride Sarah, and their two children currently reside in Ellicott City, MD.