Momina Di Blasio

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua (UUCNC), located at 222 Temple Street in Fredonia, holds a Sunday Worship Service at 11am, both at their physical location and on Zoom. For those wishing to join us virtually, please visit https://tinyurl.com/caluucnc. Click on “Worship Service” on the date you are attending and scroll down for the Zoom link. For those attending the in-person service, please follow the driveway and park in the lower lot behind the building. Handicapped parking is located between the two buildings and directly behind the second building.

The theme for April is Embracing Possibility. On Sunday, “Accompanying New Neighbors Through Uncertainty” will include guest speaker Momina Di Blasio, Program Director for the New Neighbors Coalition in Jamestown.

Di Blasio shares, “In the face of shifting immigration policies and the heightened fear many immigrant families are experiencing, the New Neighbors Coalition program continues to walk alongside some of our community’s most vulnerable, so they don’t have to navigate these challenges alone.”

Di Blasio is the Program Director for the New Neighbors Coalition program housed at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. In her role, she is deeply committed to advocating for and supporting marginalized individuals in ways rooted in intersectionality and inclusivity. As an immigrant with firsthand experience navigating the challenges faced by non-U.S.-born individuals, her work is driven by a passion for language accessibility, immigrant equity, and cultural humility in both her professional and personal life.

Through the New Neighbors Coalition, she supports newly arrived immigrants as they navigate life in the region and build connections within the community. In her role, she also engages with US-born residents in efforts to foster a more welcoming Chautauqua County through educational opportunities, meaningful dialogue, and cultural celebration.

Di Blasio has a Bachelor of Arts in Music from George Mason University and a Master of Public Administration from State University of New York Brockport. Currently, she serves on the Education Solution Team of the Chautauqua County Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access Coalition (IDEA). Previously, Momina was a mayor-appointed member of the City of Jamestown Commission on Human Rights from November 2020 to November 2023.

She and her spouse found their way to Jamestown from Northern Virginia in 2020 and are so grateful to be a part of this tight-knit, Western New York Community. They live on the northside, with their dogs, the real ones in charge.

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua strives to be a vibrant, welcoming, multigenerational, diverse community enlivened by the power of radical love. We are a congregation that nurtures acceptance, spirituality, and growth while guided by Unitarian Universalist Principles. We provide a place where people engage together through fellowship, celebration, social outreach, environmental action, and transformative justice. For more information about us, visit our website at www.uucnc.org, like our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/uucnc, or give us a call at 716-679-7944. We invite you to join us!