Rev. Dr. Kendra Vaughan Hovey received her Doctorate in Ministry from the University of Sedona. She is the Founding Elder High Priestess of the First Church of Wicca in Duxbury, Massachusetts. She has more than fifteen years of experience in the Wiccan faith as a spiritual leader, healer, and mentor and has written and conducted numerous Wiccan rituals, rites of passage, handfastings, and metaphysical sermons. She is a member of the American Metaphysical Doctor's Association and is ordained by both the First Church of Wicca and the International Metaphysical Ministry. She lives in Duxbury with her husband and two children.