Eunice McMurray

EUNICE McMURRAY {[email protected]} was born in South Korea and joined the LDS Church after immigrating to the United States with her family. While studying biology and later medicine at Harvard, she became involved in community activism and organizing, with particular focus on issues of health care and social justice. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.

Leveling the Earth, Expanding the Circle

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 2

Hi, my name is Eunice McMurray. I’m married to Peter, who is an ethnomusicologist, and I’m a mom to four-year-old Penny, who is currently my job. We’ve been in the ward about ten years. I was originally asked to speak last week, but I was in Korea visiting my grandfather who is sick. He and my grandmother raised me on a chicken farm until I was five and I moved to the US with my parents. I joined the Church when I was twelve and, not having had the public speaking training from going to Primary, I am perpetually terrified of giving sacrament meeting talks. I even asked Penny to give this talk for me, but she said no because this pulpit is too big for her.