Miriam Therese MacGillis, OP

Dominican sister of Caldwell, New Jersey and co-founder of Genesis Farm, an Earth Literacy Center in northwestern New Jersey

Genesis Farm is a learning center where people of good will are welcome to search for more authentic ways to live in harmony with the natural world and each other. In 2005 she received the Thomas Berry Award, and in 2007 was named among the planet's top 15 green religious leaders by Grist magazine.

Through her workshops and lectures (over 500 of them so far), she helps people to understand and embody this new understanding of what it means to be human. Miriam is the director of Genesis Farm, a center for education in earth stewardship, sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell, NJ in affiliation with Global Education Associates.

For more information about Genesis Farm go to: http://www.genesisfarm.org/.