Staff and Board

Maxwell is a climate activist, human/ environmental rights defender, and team leader at Tasha Research Institute Africa (TASHA). He holds a Bachelor’s in Law and is pursuing a Master’s of Security Studies at Cavendish University specializing in Energy Security. Maxwell excels at community mobilization, legal counseling, mediation, public speaking, advocacy and community empowerment. He is a champion of movement-building against fossil fuels and always yearns for protection of the earth, nature, and people, and sustainable development for the environment.

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Based in Germany, coordinates GreenFaith’s work in Germany. She works with GreenFaith e.V., our new German affiliate.  She previously coordinated GreenFaith’s global multi-faith initiative on sustainable living and the GreenFaith International Network, engaging with a diverse range of religious partners across the globe. She previously served as Youth Secretary of The Lutheran World Federation and has represented LWF and GreenFaith at UNFCCC COP meetings since 2013.

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Amélie is in charge of GreenFaith’s French-speaking base building and the Stop EACOP campaign. Her Master’s thesis in Theology was on restorative justice. Today, she accompanies groups for management and projects that take care of the people with human permaculture and popular education tools. When she’s not working, she plays a lot of sports and loves to have long talks with her friends about life, the world, and all that.

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Rose works with GreenFaith’s global team and coordinates GreenFaith’s communications and digital processes. Previously, she was Director of Programs and Development at Christian Counseling Center. Over the years, she has served in numerous writing and editing roles, both freelance and in positions at Hope & Hard Pills and Hush Harbor Media. Rose lives in Sarasota, Florida.

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He designs systems and processes to make GreenFaith’s teamwork more efficient and effective. Muhanad has 10+ years of experience in the NGO sector, including serving as Executive Director at Taghyeer, an organization leading a nonviolence movement in Palestine. He is a Fulbright Scholar with a Master’s degree in Policy and Economics of Freshwater Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Muhanad comes from Palestine, but is currently living between Turkey and Germany.

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Oluwatosin organizes GreenFaith Circles in New Jersey, and supports GreenFaith’s outreach in Africa. In 2014 he convened the “People’s Climate March ” in Nigeria which later grew to become an annual climate action week event to draw national attention to impacts and solutions to the climate crisis. “Tosin”  is a strong vocal critic against coal mining and a fearless advocate for earth conservancy. If he is not working, he is talking to someone about earth reciprocity.

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Baraka is a climate justice defender and researcher. He previously worked as a Young Digital Activist on issues pertaining to climate change with FORUM CC. Baraka has also worked as a consultant with various organizations on the issues of climate change such as Organization for Community Engagement (OCE), Green Conservers and Ujuzi Smart.

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Chelsea is ordained as an interspiritual minister, and is founder of THE ALTER, a community of spiritual changemakers. She also cofounded Brooklyn Center for Sacred Activism, an experimental new monastic community, and co-hosted The Rising: Spirituality for Revolution, a podcast for sacred activists.

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With over eight years’ experience as a Climate Justice Campaigner, he previously worked as Project Lead at the African Coalition for Sustainable Energy Access (ACSEA) and the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA); building an inclusive African movement to amplify and unite the voices of local communities in over 8 African countries to advance policies and practice in support of climate justice within the context of the climate emergency.

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Based in Nairobi, Kenya, she has 16 years’ experience in the media industry as a writer and editor,  including with Kenya’s Standard Group. Lynet also worked at the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance as Communications and Knowledge Management Lead and Media Liaison, and previously at Eminent as Media Liaison Officer. She writes a weekly column on climate change in Kenya’s oldest newspaper, ‘The Standard.” Lynet holds a Bachelor’s degree in languages and a Masters in Communication Studies.

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Julia creates content in English, Spanish and Portuguese. She has degrees in Biophysics and Education, and is pursuing a PhD in Geography. Previously, she coordinated education and environmental justice projects in Rio de Janeiro’s slums. Julia co-created memoriaambiental.org, supported by the EU’s Iberoamerican Secretariat, and works with the Institute for Studies of Religion in Brazil’s initiative Fé no Clima (Faith in Climate). Her religion, Candomblé, is of African origin and worships the orixás and elements of nature.

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Yoshiro received a BA at Gifu University and MEd. at Boston College in Religious Education. He worked for MOA International Japan for over forty years and financed UK-based Alliance of Religions and Conservation(ARC) as a finance officer of MOA from 1995 to 2019. Currently, he is also a student in a Doctoral Program at Kokugakuin University Tokyo, studying world religions’ environmental activities.

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Kristina supports behind-the-scenes projects to make sure GreenFaith’s education and activism work runs smoothly. A graduate of Garrett Seminary in Chicago, Kristina is completing the ordination process in the United Methodist Church. She also sings and manages tours for the music collective The Many, which brings justice-oriented music to progressive Christians and spiritual communities around the world, and advocates for LGBTQ+ inclusion, racial justice, and creation care in Christian circles.

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Anna has over two decades of activist experience on environmental campaigns. Previously, she served as the Director of Network Engagement at the Laudato Si Movement and before that she worked with Greenpeace for 12 years as a Senior National Organizer, where she activated thousands of Greenpeace supporters on environmental campaigns. She believes faith organizing is essential to effective social change, and lives in the greater Los Angeles area with her family.

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Meryne is based in Nairobi, Kenya. She previously worked as Senior Project Director at the Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), where she coordinated PACJA’s regional climate justice policy advocacy in 8 African countries.  She also served as the Programme Officer for Gender, Environment and Climate Change at the Inter-Religious Council of Kenya.

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Irene is the owner of TrueBlooms, a floral business which uses seasonal, fresh, local flowers.

True Blooms was chosen to design the stage set and create the floral arrangements for the Dalai Lama’s conversation at Town Hall in New York City in 2010. She served as Director of Practice and Training at Sky Lake Lodge, a Buddhist Retreat Center in New York’s Hudson Valley and is founder of Touching the Earth, the Shambhala Buddhist environmental initiative.

Executive Committee, is pastor of Kingdom Living Temple in Florence, South Carolina.

In response to African American church burnings in the mid-1990s throughout the South, Rev. Woodberry’s work with the South Carolina Burned Church Restoration Coalition helped to bring the arsonists to justice, effectively shutting down the public operations of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina. In the early 2000’s, Leo joined the nascent African American Environmental Justice Action Network and organized community members around the issue of mercury contamination in fish and waterways due to pollution from coal-burning power plants. He continued to fight against the impacts of coal pollution as part of a coalition that successfully prevented the Pee Dee coal plant from being built.

Sheikh Ibrahim Lethome Asmani – is a Kenyan Muslim Religious Scholar and an expert in Islamic law. He holds a Master’s Degree in Law and Shari’ah specializing in Muslim Personal Law from The International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan; and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Profession from the Kenya School of Law-Nairobi. 
He is a member of both the Jamia Mosque Committee and Supreme Council of Muslims and advices both institutions on legal and Shariah matters.
Currently Sheikh Lethome is the Secretary General of Centre for Sustainable Conflict Resolution (CSCR) whose flagship project is known as BRAVE, and one of the leading Consultants on how religion can be used to address Violent Extremism, specifically training religious leaders, community P/CVE champions, youth and other stakeholders in this regard.
Sheikh Ibrahim Lethome is an active member of the Inter –religious Council of Kenya(IRCK).

Fred Profeta was Mayor of Maplewood Township from 2004-2008 and also served as the Deputy Mayor for the Environment. He was Chair of the New Jersey Mayors’ Committee for a Green Future from 2006-2011, co-founding the Sustainable Jersey Municipal Certification program. Profeta speaks widely around New Jersey and beyond to promote Sustainable Jersey, and presented at the 2009 Local Government Climate Change Leadership Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a recipient of the New Jersey Governor’s Environmental Leadership Excellence award and is also a New York lawyer, and has been the senior partner of Profeta & Eisenstein since 1987.