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 GreenFaith's Staff Fletcher Harper The Rev. Fletcher Harper is an Episcopal priest and GreenFaith’s Executive Director. Under Harper’s leadership, GreenFaith has developed series of innovative programs linking religious belief and practice to the environment. An award-winning spiritual writer and nationally-recognized preacher on the environment, he teaches and speaks weekly at houses of worship from a range of denominations in New Jersey and beyond about the moral, spiritual basis for environmental stewardship and justice. A graduate of Princeton University and Union Theological Seminary, he served as a parish priest for ten years and in leadership positions in the Episcopal Church before becoming GreenFaith’s Executive Director. Read more about Fletcher Harper. Rabbi Lawrence Troster Rabbi Troster is a nationally recognized religious-environmental leader. He has worked as the Rabbinic Fellow of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL), an Adjunct Lecturer at the Jewish Theological Seminary, a Steinhardt Fellow at the Center for Life and Learning, a Program Officer at the Jewish Life Network, and as a rabbi of congregations in Toronto and New Jersey. He is on the editorial board of Conservative Judaism and he has published and lectured widely on theology, environmentalism, liturgy, bioethics, modern cosmology and Judaism. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Read more about Larry Troster. Stacey Kennealy An honors graduate of Cook College, Stacey wrote her senior thesis with Dr. Kevin Lyons, Rutgers University’s highly-respected Director of Purchasing, and worked after graduating as a leader of an initiative to green the operation of Lawrenceville School. Since 2006, Stacey has launched the pilot Green Flag, GreenFaith Schools Program to green the operation of faith-based schools in New Jersey. Rick Bohannon After receiving his B.A. in Biblical Languages (Greek and Hebrew), Rick Bohannon received an M.A. in Theological Studies from Andover Newton Theological School (2003), with a thesis on ecological theologies of sacred space. While pursuing this degree, he worked for two years at Miller Boehm Architects, in Boston, where he was engaged in architectural computer drafting, web design, and extensive model building. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Religion and Society at Drew University, in Madison, NJ, where his research combines the sociology of religion and environmental ethics. Rick began working for GreenFaith as a web designer in the fall of 2003, and has been Building in Good Faith’s Director since 2005. Theodore Carrington Ted served as an Associate Fellow in the John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy at Thomas Edison State College where he implemented the “New Jersey Urban Air Quality Education and Awareness Initiative” which engaged youth, college students and community-based organizations to monitor high concentrations of diesel air emissions in urban centers. Before this, Ted worked with New Jersey Work Environment Council where he organized the New Jersey delegation to the Environmental Justice Leadership Summit II in Washington DC and helped form community based “Hazard Watch” groups establishing pollution prevention strategies for community groups. He currently serves as: Second Vice President of the NAACP New Jersey State Conference.
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