Focus Areas

Environmental Sustainability

Matt Spearing, Director of Environmental Sustainability

• Cultivate action that brings us in greater harmony with creation and minimizes our ecological footprint.
• Strengthen relationships to advance local and global responses to climate change.
• Promote behavior that balances the interconnected systems of sustainability: environment, economy, and equity.

Innovation and Design

Claudia Wessner, Shaw Family Director of Innovation and Design

• Embrace empathy-centered problem solving and other practices of effective design to create sustainable solutions.
• Integrate a variety of perspectives and disciplines with the understanding that innovation requires diversity.
• Support student agency and foster an appreciation for failure as a learning tool.

Justice and Peace

• Put into action our school’s responsibility to form agents for social transformation.
• Challenge our community to embrace a spirituality that does justice.
• Practice solidarity and transform dynamics of privilege and power.

Global Health and Wellness

Samira Tella, Director of Global Health and Wellness

• Understand and appreciate how psychological, economic, spiritual, social, and biological factors interrelate to affect health.
• Recognize the complexity of global systems that lead to health disparities.
• Raise awareness and foster inquiry that contributes to valuing the life and dignity of each person throughout the world.