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Amanda J. Baugh is a professor and associate chair in the Department of Religious Studies at California State University, Northridge. She is author of God and the Green Divide and the forthcoming book Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism.
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Anna Robertson is director of distributed organizing at Discerning Deacons, a project that engages Catholics in the active discernment of our church about women and the diaconate and contributes to the renewal of the diaconate for our times. Previously, she directed Catholic Climate Covenant's youth and young adult mobilization efforts and served as a campus minister at Seattle University.