Saint Thomas More Spring Invitation

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Saturday, April 16 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Jeanie Graustein Lecture on Environmental Justice Honoring her lifelong passion and service in the effort of Catholic social and environmental justice

The Inaugural Jeanie Graustein Lecture on Environmental Justice The Inaugural Jeanie Graustein Lecture on Environmental Justice, honors Jeanie’s lifelong passion and service in the effort of Catholic social and environmental justice. The lecture will be followed by breakout sessions, a time for questions and a reception.

Christiana Z. Peppard Keynote Speaker Christiana Z. Peppard is Assistant Professor of Theology, Science and Ethics in the Department of Theology at Fordham University, where she is affiliated faculty in Environmental Studies and American Studies.

She is the author of Just Water: Theology, Ethics, and the Global Water Crisis (Orbis, 2014) and coeditor of Just Sustainability: Ecology, Technology, and Resource Extraction (Orbis, 2015).

Dr. Peppard lectures nationally and internationally and has provided analysis of contemporary topics in ecological ethics and religion and science in venues such as Public Radio International and MSNBC. Her research engages religious ecological ethics at the intersection of Catholic social teaching, ecological anthropology, natural law theory and developments in the earth sciences. She received her Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale University.

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Breakout Sessions Session 1 “And This I Know Experimentally…” — a Quaker Scientist Session Leader: Kim Stoner Kimberly A. Stoner is a Quaker entomologist. She started working as a vegetable entomologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station two days after receiving her Ph.D. In her twenty-nine years as a scientist and a Quaker, she studied plant resistance to insects, holistic case studies of organic farms, exposure of bees to pesticides and pollination of pumpkins and squash. She is currently on the Board of Directors of Promoting Enduring Peace, a member of the New Haven City Farm and Garden Working Group and active in the neighborhood management team in her community in New Haven.

She received her Ph.D. in entomology from Cornell University.

Session 2 Bringing Justice into our Environmental Work — glimpses from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Session Leader: Mary Tyrell

With students Mar Gutierrez, Fairuz Loutfi, Caroline Muraida, Robert Mwaniki, Adrien Salazar and Raymond Waweru

Mary Tyrrell is the Executive Director of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry at Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Her work focuses on land use change, forest fragmentation and sustainable forest management on U.S. private lands. She leads the Sustaining Family Forests Initiative, a national coalition aimed at improving the effectiveness of outreach, services and programs for family forest owners, thus enhancing conservation and stewardship of America’s private lands. She received an M.B.A. from Boston University and an M.A. in forest science from Yale University.

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Session 3 Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor: Reflections on Laudato Si

Session Leader: Mary Evelyn Tucker Mary Evelyn Tucker is co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale where she teaches in an M.A. program between the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Yale Divinity School. With John Grim, she organized ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard. They are series editors for the ten resulting volumes from Harvard. She co-edited Confucianism and Ecology, Buddhism and Ecology and Hinduism and Ecology. She has authored with John Grim, Ecology and Religion (Island Press, 2014). They also edited Thomas Berry’s books, including Selected Writings (Orbis, 2014). With Brian Swimme, she wrote Journey of the Universe (Yale University Press, 2011) and is the executive director of the Emmy award winning Journey film that aired on PBS. She received her Ph.D. in Confucianism from Columbia University.

Session 4 Environmental Justice Challenges in Native American Communities

Session Leader: John Grim John Grim is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University, where he has appointments in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies as well as Yale Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. He teaches courses in Native American and Indigenous religions and world religions and ecology.

His published works include: The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians (University of Oklahoma Press, 1983) and, with Mary Evelyn Tucker, a co-edited volume entitled Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994). He is co-founder and codirector of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale with Mary Evelyn Tucker. Grim received his Ph.D. in history of religions from Fordham University.

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Breakout Sessions Session 5 Energy Access and Environmental Justice

Session Leader: Joanna Dafoe Joanna Dafoe is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School and a M.B.A. candidate at the Yale School of Management. Her research seeks to identify opportunities for climate change policy innovation internationally as well as within the U.S. and Canada. She is a teaching fellow at Yale University and a consultant for the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

She is a recent graduate from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Jeanie Graustein has been the Environmental Justice Ministry Coordinator, within Parish Social Ministry, since 1995. Her programs teach parishioners about caring for God’s creation from a Catholic perspective, and the many interconnections that arise from protecting life and health.

Jeanie has a B.A. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley; an M.Ed. from the University of Utah; and an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School. She belongs to the worshiping community of Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel at Yale University, where she and her husband Bill have attended since 1972.

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