Creating and Recreating the Greenest Church in Iowa

This video is the second in series of 8 videos from an event called “Climate-informed Ministry: What Do We Do Now?” It features Rev. Diana Smith (she/her), who has served as the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Society in Coralville, Iowa since 2020. She previously served Unitarian Universalist congregations near Seattle and in Boston. Prior to following the call to ordained congregational ministry, she developed community involvement and pro-environmental behavior change programs and policies for local, state, and tribal governments in Washington state and British Columbia. She holds a Master of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School, a Master of Arts in Community and Environmental Planning from the University of British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Oberlin College. She is passionate about shared ministry, the natural world, the arts, nurturing our place amidst the wonder of the universe, justice, the power of relationship, and UU congregations.