#  Graduate Profile: Tess Dufrechou, MDiv '25 

 



GRADUATE PROFILE

### Tess Dufrechou, MDiv '25 

 

“I always loved the ways classes wove together in a semester; one wouldn't have the same impact without the others.”



 



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### How I've Changed 

I think I've grown both more dedicated and more open at the same time.

### Memorable Moment 

Moments outside Swartz, in the early fall and late spring, are bleeding together and it's too difficult to tease a good one out. But I loved that feeling of returning after a long summer, or coming out of my winter den, blinking my eyes in the sun, and running into all sorts of friends and acquaintances on the lawn. The best thing about school, I think, is the ease and spontaneity of connection.

### Favorite Class or Professor 

What a tricky question! I always loved the ways classes wove together in a semester; one wouldn't have the same impact without the others. Some courses that have continued to stick with me are Dan McKanan's “Ecotheology,” Mayra Rivera's “Coloniality and Catastrophe” course, Regina Walton's “Christian Simplicity,” and a course at the GSD called “Plants of Ritual,” as well as a course at the Kennedy and Business Schools called “Reweaving Ourselves: New Perspectives on Climate.: These courses all creatively examine modernity and the climate and have helped me tremendously.

### Message of Thanks 

I would like to thank Katie Caponera for the ways I see her supporting students every day, Steph, Matt, and Melissa at the DIB Office for their inspiring and needed work, Melanie at the cafe for the coffee and chats, and the custodial team and Eddie for keeping HDS going. I would also like to thank Dan McKanan for his pedagogy and commitment to students, Leslie MacPherson at OMS for being an ever-supportive supervisor and for bringing the HDS garden into my life, Nikki Hoskins for her thoughtful and compassionate feedback, PhD student Anca Wilkening and Jordan Clark at HUNAP for their mentorship and wisdom, and Rebecca Henderson at HBS for her openhearted leadership. Finally, I’d like to thank the professors at the GSD who took a chance on a div school student and might have regretted it—but I didn’t!

### What I Hope to Be Remembered By 

My laugh, my accidental microbangs year one, the garden, Saint Francis and stinging nettle!

### Future Plans 

I will be moving to San Francisco with my partner for a CPE residency at the Saint Francis and Saint Mary's hospitals in the UCSF system.



 



 

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