Marla is a seminary-trained United Methodist committed to supporting people of all faiths and no particular faith to act boldly for justice. An experienced campaigner, trainer, pastor and lay leader, she brings two decades of social justice organizing experience with faith-based, youth, and grassroots groups.  She supported the launch of Climate Summer, serving as its Director for five years, and is a Co-Founder of both Better Future Project and 350 Massachusetts.  Marla has supported, organized, and participated in many direct action and civil disobedience efforts, including the Lobster Boat Blockade and the campaign of sustained nonviolent resistance to Spectra Energy’s West Roxbury Lateral pipeline project with Resist The Pipeline. INCLUDE LINE 3 WORK HERE?

Marla is a Co-Founder of the Climate Disobedience Center and serves as its Director. She is passionate about leadership development and building supportive communities of resistance among unlikely allies. After 18 years in the Boston area, Marla moved to Knoxville, Tennessee in November 2018 where she and her spouse and kittens tend a garden on Cherokee lands. TALK ABOUT E. TN NLG CHAPTER? She will always also call the Missouri Ozarks “home.”

Contact Marla at marla@climatedisobedience.org