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FAITH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

 Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and Meeting Houses are going green.  Not only are faith-based communities transforming their houses of worship, many are inspiring their congregants to take a more active role in care for creation.  Join us for an evening devoted to the activities and programs faith-based communities are doing to promote sustainability, stewardship and environmental justice. About USF Keynote Speakers on Faith and the Environment 

Aleciah Anthony is the Field Director at the Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition.  Ms. Anthony is a single, African American mother of two sons in the Bronx.  She has worked with the NWBCCC for eight years, starting as a neighborhood organizer apprentice in the Training Institute for Careers in Organizing, a program that she currently directs.  Ms. Anthony has also worked with a team of grassroots community leaders in the Bronx to create the Community Leadership Academy, a training center at NWBCCC that offers a full range of trainings in the art and science of community organizing.  She has a B.A. in African Studies from New York University, with a specialization in Urban Studies. http://www.northwestbronx.org/ourorganization.html

Rabbi Lawrence Troster is Director of the Fellowship program and Rabbinic Scholar-in-Residence for GreenFaith, an interfaith environmental coalition in New Jersey and the Rabbinic Fellow of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL). He is also the Jewish Chaplain of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson and an Associate of Bard's Institute of Advanced Theology. Rabbi Troster co-chairs the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment of UNEP (United Nations Environment Program). www.greenfaith.org/justice/principles.html