September 29, 2025

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET / 12:30 pm ET - 1:30 pm ET

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We are honored to welcome Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley to the Annual Environment & Spirituality Summit for a virtual session exploring the interwoven paths of Indigenous wisdom, faith, and Earth justice. A Cherokee descendant recognized by the United Keetoowah Band, Dr. Woodley is a lifelong teacher, writer, activist, and farmer whose work uplifts kinship with land and community as essential to healing.

As co-founder of Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm & Seeds in Oregon, Dr. Woodley and his wife Edith have cultivated a space for regenerative learning grounded in Indigenous values. He is also the author of Becoming Rooted, Journey to Eloheh, and many other works offering pathways back to wholeness and right relationship with the Earth.

This session will reflect on the Summit’s theme, Strong and Supported, through Dr. Woodley’s unique lens—centering Indigenous understandings of mutual care, connection, and resilience. Join us for an hour of rooted reflection and storytelling as we explore how Earth’s ancient teachings can guide us toward a more just and supported world.

Learn more about Dr. Woodley here.

We are honored to welcome Dr. Carolyn Finney—storyteller, cultural geographer, and author of Black Faces, White Spaces—for Session 2 at this year’s Annual Environment & Spirituality Summit.

With a deep commitment to truth-telling and transformation, Dr. Finney’s work invites us to examine the histories that shape our relationships with land, race, and belonging in America. Through her unique blend of personal narrative, cultural analysis, and academic insight, she helps us reimagine a liberatory, just, and green future grounded in presence, memory, and joy.

As part of our 2025 Summit theme “Strong and Supported,” this session will explore how the Earth and its stories hold us—and how, in return, we might become better kin to one another and to the land. Whether through policy, performance, or the written word, Dr. Finney’s voice challenges us to expand who is seen, heard, and supported in environmental spaces.

Join us for a rich hour of reflection, story, and possibility with one of today’s most powerful environmental thought leaders.

September 30, 2025

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET / 12:30 pm ET - 1:30 pm ET

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We are thrilled to welcome Lyanda Lynn Haupt as our Session 3 speaker—award-winning author, naturalist, and ecophilosopher—for a deeply reflective session at the Annual Environment & Spirituality Summit.

Through books like Rooted, Crow Planet, and The Urban Bestiary, Lyanda has invited readers into a richer, more intimate relationship with the living world—one that honors the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit. With poetic prose and grounded ecological insight, her work helps us remember that wildness is not separate, but ever-present in our daily lives, even in urban places.

In this session, offered in connection with our 2025 Summit theme “Strong and Supported,” Lyanda will guide us in exploring how the natural world sustains us—and how attentiveness, kinship, and wonder can support our spiritual and ecological resilience. From birds to moss, starlings to silence, her reflections offer a gentle yet urgent call to return to the wild wisdom that surrounds us.

Join us for an hour of quiet beauty and shared inquiry into what it means to be rooted—together—with the Earth.

We are deeply honored to welcome Robin Wall Kimmerer—renowned author, scientist, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation—as the keynote speaker at the Annual Environment & Spirituality Summit.

Through her internationally acclaimed book Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin has transformed countless relationships to nature by weaving Indigenous wisdom and scientific understanding into a tapestry of ecological reciprocity and gratitude. In her latest work, The Serviceberry, she continues to offer profound insights on abundance, community, and our shared responsibility to care for the Earth.

In line with our 2025 theme, “Strong and Supported,” Robin will invite us into a deeper contemplation of the reciprocal support and strength shared between humans and the natural world. Drawing from her rich experience as a mother, educator, scientist, and storyteller, Robin will illuminate how healing our relationship with the Earth can empower us to foster resilient, thriving communities rooted in generosity and mutual care.

Join us for this inspiring keynote, as Robin Wall Kimmerer guides us toward a future where gratitude shapes our relationship with each other and the living world.