{"id":54599,"date":"2024-04-04T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T16:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=54599"},"modified":"2024-04-16T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T15:10:08","slug":"jessica-a-h-chicka","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/jessica-a-h-chicka\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica A. H. Chicka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reverend Dr. Jessica Chicka serves as University Chaplain for International Students at Boston University. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is an ordained minister of Word and Sacrament in the New England Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and a clergy representative to the New England Synod Council.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In her role as University Chaplain, Jessica walks alongside students during their time at the university, helping them to discover religious and spiritual resources. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She helps lead weekly Interdenominational Protestant Worship at Marsh Chapel and mentors undergraduate and graduate students on a one-on-one basis. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to working with international students, she also oversees the non-Christian religious student organizations on campus, advocating for them within the university and making sure they have the support they need. Jessica is also a sustainability liaison for BU Sustainability, connecting her passion for environmental justice &#8211; the topic of her dissertation, God, Self, Humanity, Earth: Christian Ecological Ethics in Local Contexts &#8211; with her work at BU. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jessica earned three degrees from BU School of Theology &#8211; MTS (&#8217;07), STM (&#8217;11), and PhD (&#8217;19) and has the distinction of being the first recorded ordination at Marsh Chapel.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>In the Media<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/close-ups\/2021\/dr-jessica-chicka-ordination\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Marsh Chapel Ordination: Jessica Chicka (STH &#8217;07, &#8217;11, &#8217;19)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/lessons-from-the-pandemic\/#jessica\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One Year Later: Lessons from the Pandemic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19846,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/54599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19846"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/54599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54771,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/54599\/revisions\/54771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=54599"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=54599"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=54599"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=54599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}