Nell Fields, chaplain and director of the Hope Project at Westborough State Hospital, will preach at the Chilmark Community Methodist Church on Sunday, June 7 at 9 a.m. Ms. Fields holds a Masters of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School. The Hope Project is a multi-year, multi-disciplinary, hospital-wide initiative on hope therapy, a cognitive-based intervention designed to teach patients skills and strategies to increase hopefulness.

Prior to her ministry, Nell Fields had an impressive career in the technology business. She was, most recently, vice president of product development for First Data Corporation in Denver, Colorado; prior to that, vice president of business development for Yaga, Inc, in San Fransisco, CEO of Clickshare Service Corp. in Williamstown, MA, and vice president of global marketing for Korn/Ferry International, Futurestep in L.A. She also worked for ten years in journalism at Daily Journal Corporation in Los Angeles. She has a MFA in English from Mills College in Oakland, Calif.