Interfaith Power & Light New Mexico & El Paso invites our community to come together for an evening to celebrate our collective work caring for our natural world.
Our annual celebration will feature
A Special Panel on our theme of Healing Relationships Within Our Sacred World
Host: Laura Paskus, and environmental reporter and author of “At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate,” by the University of New Mexico Press.
Panelists
- Ryan Tate, Director of Children, Youth and Family Ministries at First Congregational UCC in Albuquerque, is the founder of the African American Spiritualist Association, soon-to-be-graduating divinity student, musician, avid forager and lover of Mother Earth.
- Eileen O’Shaugnesssy, (she/her) is a fourth generation Irish-American nuclear abolitionist organizer, educator, and musician living on Tiwa lands in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Eileen teaches courses on nuclear issues, environmental and racial justice, and gender studies at the University of New Mexico and the Central New Mexico Community College. She is completing a PhD in Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies at UNM. In 2016, Eileen co-founded the grassroots organization Demand Nuclear Abolition
- Bishop Michael Hunn, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of the Rio Grande, grew up in New Mexico and Texas. In over twenty years of ordained ministry he has served as a parish priest, a school chaplain, college chaplain, and Canon to Bishop Michael Curry. Prior to being consecrated as Bishop of the Diocese of the Rio Grande. he has spoken on subjects such as non-violent communication, stewardship, and non-violent approaches to conversations about race.
We will also present our Annual Awards
Seed (institutions): Little Sisters of the Poor, Villa Guadalupe Care Facility for elders in Gallup.
Sprout (individuals): Judy Smith, Odile Coirier, Norm Gaume, Caryl McHarney
Join us for food and drink with time to connect with our interfaith partners, music from David Poole, director of the New Mexico Peace Choir, and highlights from IPL’s work this year.
We request that your register.