Our Team
USA team
Rev. Amy Brooks Paradise
North America Organizer
A Unitarian Universalist minister working on climate finance and GreenFaith Circle development. She is a 2010 GreenFaith Fellow, and previously served as pastor in UU congregations. As Director of Education with the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, Charlotte, she worked with diverse religious communities to care for people living with HIV. She serves on the board of UU Justice Ministry North Carolina and as Board President of the Mecklenburg Metropolitan Interfaith Network.
The Rev. Chelsea MacMillan
Climate Finance Campaign organizer
Chelsea is ordained as an interspiritual minister, and is founder of THE ALTER, a community of spiritual changemakers. She also cofounded Brooklyn Center for Sacred Activism, an experimental new monastic community, and co-hosted The Rising: Spirituality for Revolution, a podcast for sacred activists.
William Morris
Faith Organizer
Holds his degree in environmental science with an emphasis on ecological restoration from Humboldt State University. William is a Faith Organizer with GreenFaith and also chairs Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA). He spends his time engaging with faith communities, schools, universities, and organizations around the topics of faith-based climate justice and education. His work has been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, BBC & ABC News.
Aly Tharp
Senior Organizer, North America
GreenFaith Senior Organizer on the North America team, supporting campaigns to end the era of fossil fuels. She is a Unitarian Universalist (UU) Lay Community Minister, and former Co-Director of the UU Ministry for Earth, where she managed two denomination-wide Climate Justice campaigns. Aly lives in Austin, Texas, where she loves to cook, garden, be with friends, and volunteer her time as a core leader of Serafina Food Pantry and Festival Beach Food Forest.
The Rev. Ronald B. Tuff
New Jersey Organizer
GreenFaith’s New Jersey Organizer, specializes in organizing black churches for environmental leadership. He served as director of the Paterson Task Force, a community-based weatherization agency, for 15 years and is an associate pastor at First Bethel Baptist Church in Irvington, New Jersey.
Sara Shor
Global Organizing and Campaigns Director
Sara has fifteen years of organizing experience, most recently as US Campaigns Director at 350.org. Sara’s roles at 350.org included service as the U.S. National Organizer, the Keep it in the Ground Campaign Manager, and the Keystone XL and Tar Sands Campaign Manager. Prior to working for 350.org, Sara worked on President Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign in Ohio and various local environmental and health justice campaigns. Sara is Jewish, living on Ohlone lands in so-called Oakland, California, United States.