Sarah Nahar, M.Div., Ph.D., is a nonviolent action trainer and interspiritual theologian, and the co-founder of Eco-Friendly Elkhart: Realizing Transition, a climate justice organization based in her hometown of Elkhart, Indiana (traditional Potawatomi land). An emerging expert of Excreta Infrastructure Technologies, her doctoral work centered on ecological regeneration, community cultivation and discard studies. Sarah has been a Rotary Peace Fellow, a Yale Environmental Justice Fellow, and periodic inspirator at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She was the executive director of Community Peacemaker Teams, an organization committed to building partnerships to transform violence and oppression worldwide. She attended Spelman College, majoring in Comparative Women’s Studies and International Studies, minoring in Spanish. She has a Masters of Divinity from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. She teaches in the University of Michigan's interdisciplinary Program in the Environment, and works closely with the Tishman Center for Social Justice and the Environment.