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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An Indonesian, Nana previously worked with the World Wildlife Fund for several years, directing WWF-Indonesia’s “Green Reconstruction” efforts in the wake of earthquake and tsunamis. She has also worked with Muslim leaders in Indonesia to create climate resiliency plans and has developed an urban climate change adaptation and mitigation initiative. She also co-directs the Islamic Society of North America’s Green Initiative.

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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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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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Coordinates GreenFaith’s organizing in the francophone world, as a consultant based close to Strasbourg, France. His campaigning focus is multi-faith opposition to the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a project led by French multinational company Total. His doctoral thesis was on degrowth and ecotheology. He chairs the Commission on Ecology and Climate Justice of the French Protestant Federation and is a member of the Ecumenical Francophone Society of Eco-Theology.

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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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Holds his degree in environmental science with an emphasis on ecological restoration from Humboldt State University. William is a Faith Organizer with GreenFaith and also chairs Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA). He spends his time engaging with faith communities, schools, universities, and organizations around the topics of faith-based climate justice and education. His work has been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, BBC & ABC News.

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Raising awareness for spiritual and multifaith organizations’ support for Indonesia’s coal phase-out and renewable energy initiatives. She was a GreenFaith Fellow in 2018, and later helped lead 75 “Faiths for Climate Justice” actions in 2021, and 200 actions in 2022. Hening has 15 years’ experience in humanitarian and environmental work, including with the Environment Institution at Muhammadiyah dan Aisyiyah and Palladium International Indonesia. Hening holds a Bachelor’s in Sociology and a Master’s in Disaster Management.

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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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Sara has fifteen years of organizing experience, most recently as US Campaigns Director at 350.org. Sara’s roles at 350.org included service as the U.S. National Organizer, the Keep it in the Ground Campaign Manager, and the Keystone XL and Tar Sands Campaign Manager. Prior to working for 350.org, Sara worked on President Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign in Ohio and various local environmental and health justice campaigns. Sara is Jewish, living on Ohlone lands in so-called Oakland, California, United States.

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She 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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GreenFaith’s New Jersey Organizer, specializes in organizing black churches for environmental leadership. He served as director of the Paterson Task Force, a community-based weatherization agency, for 15 years and is an associate pastor at First Bethel Baptist Church in Irvington, New Jersey.

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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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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.

New York City-based human rights and environmental activist.

Her personal and professional work has focused on grassroots organizing, building coalitions, and leading advocacy campaigns to address occupational and environmental health impacts of climate change and toxic chemicals. She has previously worked for organizations such as the NJ Work Environment Council and has been a leader in the fossil fuel divestment movement working with the DivestInvest Network, 350.org, and the Peoples Climate Movement – New York. She holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University with a focus on Climate and Health.

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).