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This expert panel serves as an opportunity for stude nts\, faculty\, and alum participants of the Assembly as well as the great er Union community to hear from esteemed experts in the fields of Curricul um\, Facilities\, Eco-Justice\, and other adjacent fields. The panel will ask and explore how Union\, as an institution\, as a community\, as a memb er of the Morningside Heights community\, and as a Seminary can better hea r the Cry of the Earth?
\nKarenna Gore is the founder and direct or of the Center for Earth Ethics (CEE) at Union Theological Seminary. CEE bridges the worlds of religion\, academia\, policy and culture to discern and pursue the changes that are necessary to stop ecological destruction and create a society that values the long-term health of the whole. She is also an ex officio member of the faculty of the Earth Institute at Columb ia University.
\nRev. Pamela Cooper White\, PhD bio and portr ait (attached): The Rev. Pamela Cooper-White\, PhD is Dean and Vice Presid ent for Academic Affairs and Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psycho logy and Religion at Union. She has long been an advocate for climate jus tice\, especially as climate change disproportionately impacts women and c ommunities of color. She was an original faculty signer for Columbia Theo logical Seminary in Atlanta onto the Green Seminary Initiative\, presented to Union’s Center for Earth Ethics on the topic of psychological causes o f climate change denial\, and participated with faculty and students in th e October 2019 Climate Strike and march in New York City. She is excited about Union’s declaration of a climate emergency\, and plans to become a c ertified member of Green Seminary Initative\, which represents best practi ces for ecojustice education and advocacy.
\nReverend Da wrell Rich is a pastor-teacher\, public speaker\, and community builder. H e holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture\, Master of Inf rastructure Planning and Master of Divinity. Currently\, he is completing a Ph.D. in the area of religion and society. His research focuses on the r ole of the church in environmental justice and community development. He i s a member of the American Academy of Religion\, the Association for the S ociology of Religion\, and a Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. He is also a United States Green Building Council Scholar. Most recently\, he was awarded the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Social Justice Award from Drew University.
\nSon of William Alfred Smith\, Esquire\, who spent his ea rly childhood in the Ramapo mountains and grandson of Ira Smith\, professo r and educator from Hillburn\, NY and one of first from Ramapough communit y to receive an advanced university degree. Steven D. Smith received his b achelor of arts in political science from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Calif ornia at Berkeley. Mr. Smith has traveled and lived extensively in Latin A merica and the Caribbean including Mexico\, Cuba\, Haiti\, Guyana and Ecua dor. Steven Smith is a member of several bar associations including the Un ited States Supreme Court bar of attorneys. Mr. Smith has assisted indigen ous Navajo (Diné)\, Tohono O’odham\, Guyanese villagers\, and Ramapough wi th major environmental issues in national courts and before Congress and t he United Nations.
\n\nGeoff Brown directs government r elations activities for The Pew Charitable Trusts’ domestic environmental campaigns\, which have ranged from preserving our nation’s public lands to promoting clean energy policies and improving the ability of communities to cope with flooding and sea-level rise. He also has been involved with many of Pew’s oceans and international campaigns. Previously\, he was the legislative director for the National Environmental Trust and spent 10 yea rs working in the U.S. Senate on a range of environment\, energy\, and eco nomic development issues.
\nGeoff lives on Capitol Hill in Washingto n\, DC and holds a master’s degree in resource policy and behavior from th e University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Yale University.
\nThis picture is from almost the last day of the O bama administration. I am on the grounds of the White House with the Obam a’s dogs Sunny and Bo.
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Petra is the Executive Director of the Ramapough
Lenape Community Center in Mahwah\, New Jersey\, operated by the Ramapoug
h Mountain Indians\, Inc. a 501-c3 organization. She is in preliminary Fel
lowship with the UUA\, and will be ordained in May. Petra has been an advo
cate for the rights of Indigenous peoples and nations. A graduate from Uni
on Theological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity\, having majored in Chu
rch History\, her focus is largely addressing the Doctrine of Discovery as
it has fostered racism and extreme marginalization for Indigenous
Prior to coming to Union\, Petra retired from her career in the NYC D ept of Education. A lifelong poet\, she writes about historical\, cultural \, religious\, and personal experiences\, expressing the perspectives of m arginalized communities. Petra is married to Bernard\, has two adult sons\ , Benjamin and Matthew\, and a cat named Esteban.
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