Building a Moral Economy: Climate Justice, Climate Hope
October 2025

 Fall 2025

Reverend Michael Malcom is Executive Director of Alabama Interfaith Power and Light and is a licensed and ordained United Church of Christ Minister. He is the former Senior Pastor of Rush Memorial Congregational UCC in Atlanta, GA, and the founder and Executive Director of The People’s Justice Council, a non-profit focusing on environmental justice. Rev. Malcom serves as the Environmental Justice Minister for the Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ, and  is a board member for the Southeast Climate and Energy Network.

Rev. Malcom holds an M.Div. degree from The Interdenominational Theological Center, and an MBA from the Terry School of Business MBA program at the University of Georgia. He has completed a post master’s human resource management course at Cornell University, and the Convergence Leader Project with the Center for Progressive Renewal and the Just Energy Academy.

He is a widely respected leader in environmental justice advocacy and the fight against environmental racism and injustice, working from a faith-based perspective.  He articulates environmental justice as the moral obligation to love your neighbor and as integral in addressing the climate crisis. 

Rev. Michael Malcom brings years of experience organizing within faith communities, especially in the Black community around faith-based efforts to address environmental racism.  

dr. abby mohaupt

The rev.  dr. abby mohaupt is an activist, scholar, organizer, and pastor with over 15 years of experience at the intersection of climate/environmental justice and faith. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA), she also holds a Master of Divinity and Master of Theology from McCormick Theological Seminary and a dr. in Religion, Culture, and Ecology at Drew Theological School, writing on the Presbyterian Church (USA) and divestment from fossil fuels as a faithful response to the biblical call to care for people and the planet. Her creative, liturgical, and scholarly writings have been included in publications around the world, often in easily accessible platforms for lay people. The rev. mohaupt is based in Chicago, IL, with her family.

The rev. mohaupt has tremendous international leadership experience and networks in climate justice work. She served for five years as the Director of Education and Training for Greenfaith, an interfaith organization. In this capacity she played leadership roles at international, local, and national efforts toward climate justice. She now serves the church and the world as the Director of the Garrett Collective, an innovative, collaborative, and accessible platform for theological education based at Garrett Seminary.

rev. mohaupt is an excellent writer and is highly gifted in collaborative work and in climate communications. She is adroit in communicating one of the most important focal points of her book -- the utterly essential nature of economic and racial justice in addressing climate change. She is adept also in the fine but rare art of building hope and moral-spiritual agency while also acknowledging the stark horrors of climate injustice.