To Serve and Safeguard: Faithful Stewardship for Our Earth

In this episode, Davi interviews Sevim Kalyoncu, the Executive Director of Green Muslims, a non-profit organization which serves the Muslim community in invigorating the environmental spirit of Islam through spiritually inspired education, action, and reflection. She is involved with multiple local climate action groups in the Washington DC Metropolitan area dedicated to helping educate youth about the importance of environmental awareness for spiritual, mental, and physical well-being. She holds a B.S. from Georgetown and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and has many years of nonprofit experience in Washington DC and the San Francisco Bay Area. She is also a naturalist interpreter and a yoga instructor. To learn more about Sevim and Green Muslims, please visit this site:

https://www.greenmuslims.org/

https://www.greenmuslims.org/about

In this episode, Davi interviews Gopal Patel, the co-founder and director of Bhumi Global, an organization which works in environmental advocacy for the Hindu community and in doing so utilizes Hindu perspectives on sustainability issues. For the last decade, he has advised global interfaith and environmental initiatives and worked for the inclusion of faith voices in local and international policy. He is currently co-chair of the United Nations Multi-faith Advisory Council and the Advisory Board of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. To learn more about Gopal and Bhumi Global, please visit these sites: 

Gopal Patel: https://www.ted.com/speakers/gopal_d_patel

Bhumi Global: https://www.bhumiglobal.org/

In this episode, Davi interviews Sharon Lavigne, an environmental justice activist who leads RISE St. James, an organization dedicated to preventing expansion and worsening petrochemical plant pollution in the area of St. James, Louisiana from which she hails. In that role, she was the recipient of the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize. In 2022, she received the Laetare Metal, the highest honor for American Catholics. To learn more about Sharon and Rise St. James, please visit these sites: 

Sharon Lavigne: https://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/sharon-lavigne/#recipient-bio

RISE St. James: https://risestjames.org/

In this episode, Davi interviews Yoni Stadlin, an Environmental Educator and Activist, currently working as the Chief Program Officer for Adamah, the world's largest faith-based Environmental organization which primarily serves the Jewish community. More on Adamah and Yoni can be found here: https://adamah.org/about-adamah/

In this episode, Davi interviews Dr. Ellen Davis, the Amos Reagan Kearns Distinguished professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School who focuses on how biblical interpretation bears on the life of faith communities and their response to urgent public issues, particularly the ecological crisis and interfaith relations. To learn more about Ellen and her distinguished accomplishments, please visit: https://divinity.duke.edu/faculty/ellen-davis .