A New Jersey native, is the founder of the Achieve Foundation of South Orange and Maplewood and the Achieve Volunteer Tutor Program.

Prior to her work with the schools, Deborah was a counselor with North Jersey Mental Health Associates in Morristown. She studied in Israel with the Institute for Youth Leaders from Abroad, graduated from New College of Hofstra University and holds a MEd from Columbia University Teachers College. She currently serves on the board of the Orange Orphan Society Deborah and lives in South Orange.

Irene is the owner of TrueBlooms, a floral business which uses seasonal, fresh, local flowers.

True Blooms was chosen to design the stage set and create the floral arrangements for the Dalai Lama’s conversation at Town Hall in New York City in 2010. She served as Director of Practice and Training at Sky Lake Lodge, a Buddhist Retreat Center in New York’s Hudson Valley and is founder of Touching the Earth, the Shambhala Buddhist environmental initiative.

Treasurer, CHMM, LSRP is the owner and CEO of Brilliant Environmental Services, LLC and a charter member of the Site Remediation Professional Licensing Board.

A well-respected specialist in the remediation of contaminated sites, he has been influential in New Jersey’s Licensed Site Remediation Professional program. Phil is also president of Congregation B’nai Israel in Toms River and founder of the Marilyn D. Brilliant Memorial Scholarship at Temple Beth El of Somerset, NJ

Secretary, is an Account Manager at ICF International.

Mark is a Program Manager at Con Edison.

He is currently managing the Electric Advantage program converting customers from fossil fuels to all electric appliances and HVAC in lieu of scheduled gas main replacement. Mark has over a decade of building decarbonization experience previously managing energy efficiency programs for National Grid and the phase out of heavy heating oil from New York City’s largest buildings with ICF.

Executive Committee, is pastor of Kingdom Living Temple in Florence, South Carolina.

In response to African American church burnings in the mid-1990s throughout the South, Rev. Woodberry’s work with the South Carolina Burned Church Restoration Coalition helped to bring the arsonists to justice, effectively shutting down the public operations of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina. In the early 2000’s, Leo joined the nascent African American Environmental Justice Action Network and organized community members around the issue of mercury contamination in fish and waterways due to pollution from coal-burning power plants. He continued to fight against the impacts of coal pollution as part of a coalition that successfully prevented the Pee Dee coal plant from being built.

New York City-based human rights and environmental activist.

Her personal and professional work has focused on grassroots organizing, building coalitions, and leading advocacy campaigns to address occupational and environmental health impacts of climate change and toxic chemicals. She has previously worked for organizations such as the NJ Work Environment Council and has been a leader in the fossil fuel divestment movement working with the DivestInvest Network, 350.org, and the Peoples Climate Movement – New York. She holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University with a focus on Climate and Health.

Sheikh Ibrahim Lethome Asmani – is a Kenyan Muslim Religious Scholar and an expert in Islamic law. He holds a Master’s Degree in Law and Shari’ah specializing in Muslim Personal Law from The International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan; and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Profession from the Kenya School of Law-Nairobi.
He is a member of both the Jamia Mosque Committee and Supreme Council of Muslims and advices both institutions on legal and Shariah matters.

Currently Sheikh Lethome is the Secretary General of Centre for Sustainable Conflict Resolution (CSCR) whose flagship project is known as BRAVE, and one of the leading Consultants on how religion can be used to address Violent Extremism, specifically training religious leaders, community P/CVE champions, youth and other stakeholders in this regard.
Sheikh Ibrahim Lethome is an active member of the Inter –religious Council of Kenya(IRCK).

Fred Profeta was Mayor of Maplewood Township from 2004-2008 and also served as the Deputy Mayor for the Environment. He was Chair of the New Jersey Mayors’ Committee for a Green Future from 2006-2011, co-founding the Sustainable Jersey Municipal Certification program. Profeta speaks widely around New Jersey and beyond to promote Sustainable Jersey, and presented at the 2009 Local Government Climate Change Leadership Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a recipient of the New Jersey Governor’s Environmental Leadership Excellence award and is also a New York lawyer, and has been the senior partner of Profeta & Eisenstein since 1987.

Jack M. Gorman, M.D., Executive Committee, is CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Franklin Behavioral Healthcare, providing expert guidance to health care organizations in order to improve the efficacy and cost effectiveness of mental health care. He was on the faculty of Columbia University, where he served as Klingenstein Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Jack has authored or co-authored more than 400 scientific articles and chapters, was continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for his research from 1981 until 2006, and has won numerous awards for his research and service to psychiatry. Jack is an active member of his Orthodox synagogue and a Board Member of the UJA-Federation of New York. He is co-author of Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts that Will Save Us. (New York, NY)

Katherine Hasnain, JD, MSc, is a President’s Graduate Fellow and doctoral student at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, focusing on climate & technology policy.  

Her commitment to this cause is deeply rooted in her previous experience as a Duke-Faith for Our Planet Interfaith Climate Change Fellow, where she engaged with various faith communities for advocacy. As a Duke Law, London School of Economics, and UC Berkeley alumna, Katherine has enriched her advocacy as a Climate Team Fellow at the Environmental Defense Fund and as a Board Member & Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee for the Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences. Through collaborative action and faith-based advocacy, Katherine strives to promote a sustainable world where respect for life and nature is at the heart of all policies and practices.