Environmental Fellows Program Participant
Sarah Nahar (she/her) is a nonviolent action trainer and interspiritual theologian. Now as a PhD student in Syracuse, New York (Haudenosaunee Confederacy land) her research focus is on the toilet, both the ritual and receptacle. Together with her advisor she co-created and co-teaches a course entitled Diversity and Knowledge of the Environment.
Previously, Sarah was a 2019 Rotary Peace Fellow and worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a founding member of the Carnival de Resistance and has been the Executive Director of Community Peacemaker Teams. She attended Spelman College, majoring in Comparative Women’s Studies and International Studies, minoring in Spanish. She has an MDiv from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in her hometown of Elkhart, Indiana (Potawatomi land). It is to Elkhart that she hopes to return after graduating, focusing on decolonization as the basis for racial and climate justice.
Her other interests include working on dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery, traveling by bicycle and bus, and playing capoeira
To contact Sarah, send her an email at efertpresident@gmail.com.