Karenna Gore is the founder and director of the Center for Earth Ethics (CEE) at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. CEE bridges the worlds of religion, academia, policy and culture to discern and pursue the changes that are necessary to stop ecological destruction and create a society that values the long-term health of the whole community of life. She is also an ex officio member of the faculty of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Before founding CEE, Ms. Gore worked as the director of Union Forum, during which she organized a conference called Religions for the Earth, which brought together over 200 religious and spiritual leaders from around the world to reframe climate change as a moral issue and galvanize faith-based activism to confront it.

Ms. Gore’s previous experience includes work as a lawyer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and in the legal center of Sanctuary for Families, as well as serving as director of Community Affairs for the Association to Benefit Children (ABC). She has also worked as a writer and is the author of Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America. Ms. Gore is a graduate of Harvard College, Columbia Law School and Union Theological Seminary.