Reverend Nathan Leach
Priest-in-Charge
Rev. Nathan Leach grew up in the Boston area, where his mother was a Presbyterian minister. He fell in love with the Episcopal Church while a student at Williams College, and subsequently attained his M.Div at Yale Divinity School. Prior to his time at All Saint’s, Nathan served as Director of Christian Education and Formation at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Wallingford, CT, and also worked as a hospice chaplain. Outside of ministry, Nathan has worked as a grants professional in a variety of fields, including higher education, refugee and immigrant resettlement, and the arts. He is married to Elizabeth Curtis, a nurse-midwife who will be working for Berkshire Health Systems beginning in December. They are the proud parents of Josephine (b. 2023) and Ruth (b. 2025).
Outside of the church, Nathan can be found birding, running and making music. He can be reached at priest.allsaints@protonmail.
Dr. Matthew McConnell
Minister of Music
Dr. McConnell is an American composer and organist. Educated at Bennington College (B.A.) and the New England Conservatory of Music (M.M. and D.M.A.), he studied with Stephen Siegel, Allen Shawn, John Heiss, and Daniel Pinkham. His music publishers are E.C. Schirmer, Sacred Music Press, and The Lorenz Corporation. He is a member of ASCAP
and the American Guild of Organists.
Jen Aviles
Parish Administrator/Bookkeeper
Jen has been living and working in North Adams since 2018. She earned her BA in English/Creative Writing with a minor in Theatre Arts in 2007 from Lenoir-Rhyne College in North Carolina. Outside of work and ministry, you will find her creating in her fiber arts studio or with her other half, Danny, watching old movies, rummaging around in thrift shops and flea markets, reading, or roaming one of the local museums. She has recently started acting again with local Berkshire theatre companies and projects. She is an active member of Common Folk Artist Collective, as well as supervisor and clothing repair technician at Savvy Hive in downtown North Adams.