Karenna Gore is Director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and former Director of Union Forum of Union Theological Seminary. She received an M.A. in Social Ethics from Union, a J.D. From Columbia Law School and an A.B. degree from Harvard University. She previously worked as a lawyer and as Director of Community Affairs for the Association to Benefit Children. She is the author of Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America. She lives in New York City with her three children.