Cassandra Carmichael is the Executive Director for the National Religious Partnership for the Environment where she serves an alliance of four major faith groups: Jewish, Catholic, Evangelical and Protestant. Previously, she was the Washington office and eco-justice program director for the National Council of Churches where she implemented the environmental and justice ministries of NCC’s 37 member denominations, which represent 100,000 churches nationwide. Cassandra is a senior fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program and a previous board member on the Chesapeake Bay Alliance.