Author: Chris Crews
Chris Crews is an Appalachian, Ohio transplant currently living in Brooklyn. He is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in Political Theory at The New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York City, where his work focuses on the intersections of religious worldviews and environmental politics in the Anthropocene—especially Earth-centered and animist spiritual traditions. He is an anti-racist organizer and has been involved with and written extensively about social and environmental justice movements in Ohio and New York. Through his involvement with the India China Institute he has worked in China, India and Nepal, and he is currently leading their Sacred Himalaya Initiative, which is focused on studying religion, ecology and climate change in communities around sacred Mount Kailash in Tibet. He writes regularly at www.chriscrews.com.