Seeking to join care for God’s people and care for God’s Earth, I’m currently a graduate student in agro-ecology and community education at Cornell University. I work with community gardeners in Brooklyn to develop ecologically-based gardening practices (such as cover cropping) that support healthy food production and a healthy environment. I’m also an active member of First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca (NY), and I enjoy engaging students, faith communities, and civic groups in advocacy and action for social and environmental justice. Before coming to Cornell, I studied Biology and Environmental Studies at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. From 2004 – 2008, I served as an Agroforestry Volunteer in Peace Corps/El Salvador, where I lived and worked with a rural community in agroforestry and soil conservation, organic vegetable gardening, water and sanitation, and environmental education projects. I also got pretty good at chasing, and catching, chickens.