Roberta Boone
Boone, as she is called, is a member of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Knoxville and likes to garden.
Russanne Buchi-Fotre
Russanne is a retired social worker with the Nashville metropolitan health department who has worked with the homeless for 27 years. She has served as a foster family for 25 years. Concern about climate change that has brought her to serve with TIPL. Russanne’s other interests lie in working with Moms Demand Action, regarding gun violence, and voting rights with the League of Women Voters.
Stewart Clifton
Stewart is a member of Glendale Baptist church and active with the church’s Green Team. He is a lawyer and lobbyist for nonprofit social justice and environmental groups including Tennessee Conservation Voters.
Anne Curtis
Anne has felt committed to the environment ever since she grew up walking in the woods with her dad and going to Girl Scout camps. She loves birdwatching and getting her hands in the dirt. Professionally, Anne, now retired, has been a French teacher in both high school and college and then a refugee resettlement coordinator for Bridge Refugee Services here in Chattanooga. She attends Grace Episcopal Church.
Matthew Groves
Matthew has recently become active with the Nashville Chapter of TIPL and helped lead a Climate Academy Workshop in October 2019. He graduated from Vanderbilt Divinity School in May and also has an undergraduate degree from William and Mary with a double major in Physics and Religious Studies. He has made numerous presentations on the interrelation of faith and science at many houses of worship. Matthew is a part-time staff person for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action.
Anne Hardin
Anne joined TIPL in 2017 to help organize a conference in Nashville. She and Doug, married 32 years, have raised 3 daughters, reside on a small farm in Goodlettsville with a daughter and three grandchildren, and attend St Augustine’s Episcopal Chapel. Anne got her BSN at Vanderbilt in 1984 and retired after 30 years nursing as an RN and lactation consultant at Metro Nashville General and Centennial Hospital. Besides mothering, nursing, and hobby farming, her passion has been spent within prison ministry, racial reconciliation, and now work within TIPL. As a Cradle Catholic, she has crisscrossed denominations spending time within Methodist and Baptist and now Episcopal communities which have served to enhance every season of life.
Drew Herzog
Drew is an active member of TIPL, participating regularly in the efforts of the Nashville chapter. He is one of the leaders of the Being Green Team at The Temple, Ohabai Sholom, a Reform Jewish congregation in Nashville where he is a member. Drew is an Accounts Manager at Harcros Chemicals Company.
Pam Hindle
Pam is a member of the Church of the Savior Church (UCC) in Knoxville. She retired from serving as registrar for the University of Tennessee / Knoxville.
Dan Joranko
Dan returns to the TIPL Steering Committee. He is the executive director of Tennessee Alliance for Progress in Nashville and also has been an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt Divinity School, teaching a weekly class for prisoners and students at Riverbend Maximum Security Prison. Dan belongs to the United Methodist Church.
Sandy Kurtz
Sandy is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Chattanooga and the director of the Urban Century Institute.
Paul Laudeman
Paul is a member of the West Knoxville Friends Meeting. He is a core volunteer with KickStand Community Bike Shop, a Knoxville nonprofit dedicated to repairing donated bikes and giving them to those most in need of alternate forms of transportation and recreation.
Courtney Shea
Courtney is a retired staff attorney to the U.S. Department of the Interior. She is a member of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Fountain City.
Rev. Paul Slentz
Reverent Slentz is with the Nashville United Methodist District Creation Care Ministries. He served 18 years as pastor of the 61st Avenue United Methodist Church in Nashville.
Wayne Thomas
TIPL Coordinator – Dan Joranko