Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, currently the first woman Director of Religion at the historic Chautauqua Institution. Reverand Campbell is an ordained minister with standing in two Christian denominations, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the American Baptist Church and a former General Secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.
Bill McKibben, United Methodist layperson and author of many books including The End of Nature, one of the first books for the layperson concerning the true cost of global warming, the destruction of the ozone layer and other man-made ills. Other books include: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age; Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyful Christmas; Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth, and others. Bill McKibben is currently a visiting scholar at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Bishop Susan W. Hassinger is the bishop of the Troy Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Prior to that position, Bishop Hassinger served as Bishop-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor, Boston University School of Theology, Mass., as a liaison between Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church and the 13 United Methodist schools of theology in the United States, and as Spiritual Director, Carter Memorial United Methodist Church, Needham, Mass.
Bishop Susan Morrison, is former Bishop of the Troy Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Ven. Monshin Paul Naamon, Abbot, Karuna Tendai Dharma Center, The Tendai-shu New York Betsuin and also a staff chaplain with the Capital District and Berkshire County Hospices as well as being listed as a Buddhist Chaplain on call at many area hospitals. The Karuna Tendai Dharma Center is currently renovating and building new “green” buildings for their facilities.
Rev. John Paarlberg, minister for Social Witness of the Reformed Church of America.
Pete and Toshi Seeger, singer and songwriter, Pete was given the nation’s highest artistic honors at the Kennedy Center in December 1994. He also built the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater to highlight the plight of our waterways.
Peter Lindabury, chair of the U.S. Green Building Council. The U.S. Green Building Council Upstate New York Chapter is the nation’s foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable, and healthy places to live and work.
New York Interfaith Power and Light was founded March 29, 2004.
