About me

I’m Rumni Saha, a proud Hindu and a faithful Unitarian Universalist dedicated to nurturing communities of compassion, curiosity, and courage.

My family, friends and faith root me in gratitude and remind me of life’s endless possibilities. Relationships are at the heart of who I am and how I serve — they are the ground where meaning, growth, and belonging take root.

Joy is essential to me; humor and laughter are central to both my living and my ministry. As Anne Lamott reminds us, “Laughter is carbonated holiness”. I truly believe that laughter connects us to one another, softens what is heavy, and reminds us that joy itself is sacred and necessary.

On September 26, 2025, I was welcomed into Preliminary Fellowship by the UUA. I will be ordained on May 30, 2026, at Wellesley College’s historic Houghton Chapel.

I serve as a College Chaplain and the Hindu as well as the Unitarian Universalist Community Coordinator at Wellesley College. It has been a profound privilege to accompany students as they grow in spirit and conscience — making meaning, finding joy, pursuing justice, and learning what it means to truly care for one another.

I also cherish my time as an Interfaith Chaplain with a small but mighty nonprofit org, serving through community ministry, hospital chaplaincy, and interfaith engagement. My greatest learning has come from working with unhoused neighbors whose wisdom, resilience, and stories have deeply transformed me.

I am inordinately grateful for having grown up in a society where pluralism was the norm. I consider India, my home country, as having given me my roots, and my adopted country, my wings.

In 2020, I returned to school after a 20 year live-giving career as a teacher of students with disabilities.

On the first day of Seminary, when we gathered online in a world shut down by the Pandemic, I heard Bishop LaTrelle Easterling’s words pierce through the uncertainty — “Make Sure You Give A Damn”. At a time when everything around us seemed fragile, those words became a lifeline, a simple reminder that even amidst chaos, caring deeply was non-negotiable. I knew, then and there, that if I held onto nothing else, I would be okay, as long as I remembered those prophetic words. To give a damn has now become my lifelong goal.

https://allpoetry.com/Where-The-Mind-Is-Without-Fear

I strive to serve with humility. I have been deeply inspired by Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen’s work which explores the difference between “helping”, “fixing” and “serving”. In her view, “When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole.” Service is the work of the soul and not the ego.

In many ways, this understanding resonates beautifully with Hindu philosophy. The teachings of karma yoga call us to act without attachment to outcome and without allowing the ego to claim ownership of the work. Detachment is not indifference — it is the freedom to serve with an open heart, without needing to be the hero. I too believe that when we release ego and expectation, we become clearer vessels for compassion, presence, and true service.

Where The Mind Is Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

~ Rabindranath Tagore