Kelmė
Kelmė (; is a city in northwestern Lithuania, a historical region of Samogitia. It has a population of 8,206 and is the administrative center of the Kelmė district municipality.
History
Kelmė's name may come from the Lithuanian ''kelmynės'' ...
) is a Lithuanian ethnologist, folklorist, sociologist, psychologist, head of folk music group
Kūlgrinda
(plural ; from the Samogitian 'stone' and 'pavement', itself from 'to rake, pull together') is a hidden underwater stony road or ford across swamps and swampy areas used for defense in the history of Lithuania. Similar secret roads made primar ...
and the high priestess (''krivė'') of the Romuva community of the old Lithuanian faith. She became the high priestess after the death of the previous high priest (''krivis'') and her husband Jonas Trinkūnas in 2014. She is a founding member of the
European Congress of Ethnic Religions
The European Congress of Ethnic Religions (ECER) is an organisation for cooperation among associations that promote the ethnic religions of Europe. She holds a master's degree in psychology from
Vilnius University
Vilnius University ( lt, Vilniaus universitetas) is a public research university, oldest in the Baltic states and in Northern Europe outside the United Kingdom (or 6th overall following foundations of Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews, Glasgow and ...
. She was a featured speaker in the Indigenous Plenary Session at the Parliament of the World Religions in Toronto in 2015.