Check out who's speaking at the Summit!

We are pleased to have the following people presenting at the summit:

	Tyler Amy Based in Buffalo, NY, Tyler Amy serves as Renewal’s newest National Coordinator. His roots are deep in the Great Lakes Region, where he has enjoyed picturesque autumns and long winters since his childhood in northwestern Pennsylvania. His interests in issues of sustainability grew while an undergrad at Waynesburg University and while serving with Renewal’s Student Leadership Team. During his undergrad studies, Tyler was graciously given the opportunity to study in New Zealand with the Creation Care Study Program. It wasn’t long after that Tyler was back in New Zealand, working as a Student Life Coordinator for CCSP. Some of Tyler’s additional interests include biking, playing lawn games (especially horseshoes), sketching and sleeping in his hammock.
	Judith M. Anderson Judith M. Anderson is the first Executive Director of the Environmental Justice Group of Western New York (EJAG). As co-founder of the young organization that was incorporated in 2007 and received 501(C) 3 status in 2009, her current work is focus on building capacity within the organization. Located in a low-income community of color, much of her work revolves around environmental health and justice education. The organization’s community-based participatory research projects have been funded by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Environmental Justice Department and the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.
	Brittany Bennett Brittany Bennett is a recent alumna of Eastern University where she majored in Environmental Studies and minored in Biology. Brittany grew up with a heart for travel, and has a fascination with the country's diversity of landscape and people. Studying at a school heavy on justice, she has become passionate about reconciliation, especially where environmental concerns meet social needs. She is currently adjusting to life in Greater DC, learning her neighborhood, and working as a lab tech supporting nuclear waste projects. Her other interests include crafts, random adventures, the tropics, music, cooking/gardening, and supporting her NFL team in the unsafest of places. Brittany served as a Renewal Student Leadership Team member from 2008-2011.
	Mark Cerbone Mark Cerbone is a 1978 graduate of Houghton College. After a two-year term serving in inner city Philadelphia with the Mennonite Central Committee, Mark returned to Houghton for three years, serving in a quasi-staff position. While in Philadelphia, Mark was a personal assistant to noted evangelical social justice leader Ron Sider and also took a seminary class taught by activist speaker/writer Tony Campolo. Mark also helped plan the “Creation” outdoor festival from 1981-1989. He has been involved with planting five churches and has spent nearly 25 years living in at-risk urban communities in Philadelphia, Akron and Buffalo. Since 1992 Mark has worked alongside his wife, Diann Takens-Cerbone, to establish Peace of the City Ministries, a faith-based nonprofit working with at-risk children and teenagers residing in Buffalo’s distressed West Side.
	Laura Dagley Laura Dagley is the Outreach Coordinator with Christians for the Mountains, a Christian environmental group working to stop mountaintop removal. With this group she has attended protests and hearings, and has helped organize festivals and meetings with members of Congress and the EPA. She is also a part-time nursing student at Messiah College and works as a CNA. It is the connection she sees between the environment and the health of the people that gives her passion for her work with mountaintop removal.
	Dr. Chris Elisara Visionary educator and filmmaker, Dr. Chris Elisara is the founder of the Creation Care Study Program (CCSP), Center for Environmental Leadership, and the award-winning production company First+Main Media. A native New Zealander, Chris completed his undergraduate degree at Auckland University in anthropology and education. He then pursued a M.B.A. at Eastern University and a Ph.D. in cross-cultural education from Biola University, CA. Chris and his wife, Tricia, lived and worked in Belize and New Zealand for a number of years where they both indulged a passion for transformative experiential education, God's creation, and sustainable community development. They are now based in Julian, CA and have two sons, Ethan and Elliot.
	Dr. Michael Ferber Michael Ferber directs the Environmental Studies Program at The King’s University College in Edmonton, Alberta Canada and is the advisor for the university’s environmental student club “The King’s Keeper’s.” Over the past three years Michael’s students have made sustainability a major topic of conversation through student-led activities and campaigns, including appeals to the President and Board of Governors. Their work resulted in the President signing a major commitment on climate change and adopting STARS (Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System), a tracking system whereby universities are held publicly accountable for advancing sustainability in their curriculum, research, facilities, planning and administration.
	Peter Illyn Raised in South Carolina as a Russian Orthodox, Peter graduated from Rhema Bible College where he earned credentials as an evangelical minister. He spent nine years serving as a pastor in Foursquare churches in Portland, OR and Yakima, WA. Peter returned to school for an undergraduate degree in marketing. Upon graduation, as a sabbatical, Peter took two llamas on a four-month, 1,000 mile trek through the Cascades, which set the long-distance record for llama packing. Peter returned to school for a Master’s degree in social marketing, combining his three passions – nature appreciation, social marketing and Christian theology. Peter’s success in reaching the church community with a message of environmental stewardship has been featured on Lehrer Newshour, CBS Evening News, CNN, Outside Magazine, Utne Reader, Backpacker Magazine, Charisma, and Christianity Today. Peter is the founder and executive director of Restoring Eden.
	Taylor Kirkland Taylor Kirkland is an asker of questions, a wrangler of words, and always near a cup of coffee. He launched the Radical Roots Project in 2009 after a series of letter exchanges with poet/farmer/activist Wendell Berry about what it means to be “radical.” His M.A. in Appalachian Studies from Appalachian State University covered everything from banjo history to agroecology, but his research focused on the complex relationship between narrative and community development. His work has appeared in The Progressive, YES! Magazine, and the Earth First Journal, and in 2010 he received the e-Appalachia Award for Outstanding Website from the Appalachian Studies Association. He thinks and writes best from his cabin in Black Mountain, NC.
	Ben Lowe Ben Lowe is the author of Green Revolution (IVP 2009) and currently serves as the Director of Young Adult Ministries for the Evangelical Environmental Network. Previously, he was a Coordinator for Renewal and the Outreach Director for A Rocha USA. Ben lives in the Chicagoland area, where he is part of the Parkside Intentional Community.
	Dr. J. Richard Middleton J. Richard Middleton is Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary, on the campus of Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY. A native of Jamaica, Middleton moved to Canada before settling in the U.S. He coauthored (with Brian Walsh) The Transforming Vision (on a Christian worldview) and Truth is Stranger Than It Used to Be (on postmodernism and faith). His most recent book is The Liberating Image (on humans as the image of God). He is finishing up a book on holistic eschatology, entitled A New Heaven and a New Earth, and is working on a commentary on 1 and 2 Samuel.
	Walter Simpson Retired in July 2008, Walter Simpson held the position of University Energy Officer for 26 years and was director of the UB Green Office at the University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo). After leaving UB, Walter assisted other colleges in developing energy conservation programs, sustainability programs, and climate action plans. Walter holds Master’s degrees in philosophy and environmental studies, and is a Certified Energy Manager (C.E.M.), a LEED Accredited Professional, and an AASHE Senior Fellow. A former director of the Western New York Peace Center who first became interested in energy issues as a result of concerns about world peace, Walter is co-founder of the Western New York Climate Action Coalition and the Western New York Sustainable Energy Association. Walter and his wife Nan live in Amherst, NY, with their two children, Jay and Skye.
	Christine and Tom Sine Christine and Tom and their golden retriever Bonnie live in community in Seattle with 8 other people. They grow 40 percent of their produce on an urban lot. Christine is an Aussie who in a former life administered the medical ministry of Mercy Ships. She now directs the ministry of Mustard Seed Associates (MSA), has a very active blog on spirituality: www.godpace.wordpress.com, and has authored several books including: GodSpace; To Garden With God, Tales of a Seasick Doctor and co-authored with Tom Living on Purpose: How to Create a Life you can Love. Her very favorite thing is to grow wonderful tomatoes and Asian greens in her garden. Tom is a futurist whose second conversion was on Earth Day 1970. He has been writing about sustainability since his first book Mustard Seed Conspiracy in 1981. His major book on environmental issues was Wild Hope. His other books include Why Settle For More and Miss the Best, Mustard Seed Vs McWorld and his newest book is about a new generation of innovators…The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time. Tom’s favorite thing is cooking food from all over the world for friends from all over the world.
	Brian Webb Brian works for Blessed Earth as the Director of Educational Programming. Having grown up camping and hiking on family vacations, Brian has always appreciated the beauty of God’s creation. He is passionate about helping others grow in their walk with Christ by making the connection between faith and the environment. Brian holds a Master’s degree in Experiential Education and has experience working both in full-time missions ministry and in camp ministry. He also currently serves as the Director of Intercultural Student Programs at Houghton College, where he lives with his wife Becky and daughters Acadia and Galilee.
	Daniel Webster Daniel Webster is Dickinson College's sustainability projects coordinator, where he manages the Center for Sustainability Education's internship program and works on strategic development revolving around the greenhouse gas emissions inventory. He completed his B.A. in English at Messiah College in 2009. There he became the founder and co-manager of a student-driven initiative to install an on-campus community garden with a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model. He has worked in his hometown, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, as a sustainability coordinator, securing grant money to fund farmers’ markets, and won a library grant to research urban agriculture implementation for United States cities. He is a basketball enthusiast, and an MFA candidate at Bennington College’s creative writing program.
	Curtis Witek Curtis is a senior at Wheaton College and the President of A Rocha Wheaton. As a student of Environmental and Urban Studies, Curtis' academic and professional interests lie in the relationship between human communities, urbanization, technology, and the natural environment. Previously at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago, Curtis worked on a campaign to create a world-class public transit system in the Chicago region. Following graduation, Curtis intends to first work professionally, then pursue graduate school in the field of urban planning, public policy or landscape architecture. Apart from school, Curtis plays bass in Wheaton's Chapel Band and explores Chicago's neighborhoods as often as possible.