Desirée began her undergraduate education as an Environmental Studies student and considers her early learnings and explorations in the fields of environmental science, ecofeminism, ecopsychology, wilderness, and the deep practices of earth-based spiritual/religious traditions as forming her foundations and worldview. Grappling with the climate crisis, then and now, changed and changes everything. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Psych and Religion and went on to earn a MDiv from Harvard Divinity School. She worked for many years in the fields of housing/homelessness and behavioral health, before circling back to integrate understandings of climate change into the call to respond to the world's need for changes that center radical love, awakening, and new visions for humanity. She has a personal obsession with liberating herself and others from dependency on fossil fuels, and so spends a lot of time thinking about and working on decarbonization with a vision toward community empowerment and justice.
