After taking a deep dive into the multi-faith climate movement last year as part of Generation GreenFaith, and previously supporting educational work on environmental protection and climate justice within the Protestant Church in Northern Germany, Jesse is now working in advocacy and campaigning against fossil “lock-in” driven by harmful liquefied natural gas (LNG). He believes that religious and spiritual communities around the world hold alternative visions of a just and healthy way of living together.

Sofia is supporting GreenFaith in Germany as an intern until the end of June. She is contributing her passion for a healthy and just world to our current campaign for an LNG-free future (Breath of the Future). While she is exploring the scientific foundations of environmental social sciences through her Master’s program in Ecosystem Services at TU Dresden, her personal roots lie in nature spirituality—especially shamanism—while she is also increasingly drawn to yoga.

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.

Hala holds a degree in Arabic language, literature and civilization from Paris Sorbonne University and Sorbonne Abu Dhabi. She is a speaker, trainer and decolonial ecofeminist activist. Within GreenFaith France, she is in charge of digital communication and social networks. Within the French climate movement, Hala works on the question of new narratives, the mobilization of marginalized and multi-marginalized audiences and the question of inclusion and representativeness.

Tamy Dellert is GreenFaith Germany’s Consultant on Social Media and Communications. She is based close to Stuttgart, Germany, and have been working with GreenFaith before in digital communications and organizing in 2021 and 2022. Her previous occupations include being a social service in the shared accommodations for refugees in Germany and being a communications manager with a Palestinian non-profit organization and social movement.

Romy is a French Muslim community organizer and consultant for social and environmental justice, based in the Paris region. As a GreenFaith ‘Islam & Stop EACOP’ organizer, Romy Dematons unites multi-faith and Muslim communities in the Stop EACOP campaign (which opposes the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, a neo-colonial project spearheaded by the French multinational Total). Romy Dematons achieved a double degree in History and Arabic from Sorbonne University, as well as a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Doctoral School of Sciences Po Paris. As an advocate for peace and justice, Romy Dematons also organises spiritual retreats for Muslim women in the Ile-de-France region.

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.

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.

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.