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UUYACJ Movement Training Workshop Series

UUYACJ Movement Training Workshop Series Saturday, March 26th Saturday, April 2nd Saturday, April 9th   This workshop series was inspired by this year’s Spring For Change theme, “Get Rooted, Get Ready.” It is a space for young adults who are looking to deepen their connection to activism and build tangible skills into their justice work. […]

Join the UUYACJ Network!
The Unitarian Universalist Young Adults for Climate Justice Network are young adults, ages 18-35, who are climate justice activists with some connection to the Unitarian Universalist faith. We are a self-organized network supported by the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth. Please tell us more about you!
We welcome folks to sign up even if they are not yet 18.
Include city, state, and other information relevant to your activism/life stage.
We are interested in knowing your faith perspective, background and community.
We welcome and support all backgrounds and experiences!

UU Young Adults are invited to participate in the UUYACJ Political Education & Book Club: an opportunity to deepen our political education and reflect together in community.

Our most recent reads including Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer and All We Can Save edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson. We host our bookclubs roughly once a year, either in the fall or the spring. We’re getting ready to announce our fall book club read, so stay tuned! 

Previous UUYACJ Book Club selections (in addition to this list, be sure to check out UUMFE’s Recommended Books):

  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  • An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • Stolen Future, Broken Present: the Human Significance of Climate Change by David Collings
  • No Condition is Permanent, 19 Poets on Climate Justice and Change
  • Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
  • When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams

About UU Young Adults for Climate Justice

Our mission is to grow a diverse network of Unitarian Universalist young adult activists grounded in faith, supported by each other and the UU community at large, and working together for climate justice.

Our vision is that our individual and collective actions catalyze the movement for a socially just, resilient, and sustainable future.

Our members are young adults, aged 18-35, who are climate justice activists with some connection to the Unitarian Universalist faith.

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Our Leadership

UUYACJ is currently supported by a paid, part-time young adult UUMFE staff member, one paid young adult intern, who work with a core team of young adults spread across North America. Our logo was created by Gaby Lamoureux. Join our network!

Hello All! My name is Zoë Johnston and I’m the Network Coordinator for UU Young Adults for Climate Justice. I currently attend Arcadia University outside of Philadelphia and am a graduate student in theInternational Peace and Conflict Resolution program. I am grateful to be part of many organizing communities that remind me that we can practice a liberated future in our present reality. My passion is in building intentional communities that are grounded in care and thinking through how that can become sustainable.

Connect with Zoë : uuyacj@uumfe.org.

Our History

UUYACJ was founded in 2012 by UU Ministry for Earth with the support of the UU Funding Program. In our first few years, we focused on building community through offering workshops at regional UU young adult gatherings and the annual Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly, which we have continued to do every year.

Our first network coordinator was Rev. Jennifer Nordstrom, followed by Curtis Murphy of Ontario (2013-2014), and Aly Tharp of Texas (September 2014 to present), who now serves as UUMFE Programs Director.

In fall 2014, UUYACJ adopted a unique and consensus-based model for directly-democratic decision making among members, and shortly thereafter adopted our first continental campaign—100 Worship Services for Climate Justice—as part of the denomination-wide Commit2Respond climate justice campaign, of which UUYACJ served as a sponsoring leader.

In August 2015, we helped to create GROW Climate Justice—the first UU-sponsored skill-building workshop for young adult climate justice activism, with the UU College of Social Justice. In February 2016, we began a Climate Justice Book Club. Read our stories!

A multiracial group of two dozen young adults cheers and holds a banner that says "Grow Climate Justice"

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UU Young Adults for Climate Justice is a diverse network of UU activists aged 18 to 35 who support each other in engaging in direct action campaigns, leading worship services, educating ourselves and the wider UU world, mobilizing and organizing UUs for the work of climate justice, and more.

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More about the network

Launched in 2012, UUYACJ is made up of a core team of committed leaders plus a wide-ranging membership, utilizing a consensus-based model for directly-democratic decision making. We’ve organized trainings and workshops on climate justice, a book club, and a climate justice worship services campaign. Learn more!

Stories from members

Launched in 2012, UUYACJ is made up of a core team of committed leaders plus a wide-ranging membership, utilizing a consensus-based model for directly-democratic decision making. We’ve organized trainings and workshops on climate justice, a book club, and a climate justice worship services campaign. Learn more!

Political Education & Book Club

Launched in 2012, UUYACJ is made up of a core team of committed leaders plus a wide-ranging membership, utilizing a consensus-based model for directly-democratic decision making. We’ve organized trainings and workshops on climate justice, a book club, and a climate justice worship services campaign. Learn more!