Dr. Erin Lothes is a theologian who researches energy ethics and the faith-based environmental movement. She is an expert on the Laudato Si’ Movement (formerly the Global Catholic Climate Movement).  

Erin is author of “Inspired Sustainability: Planting Seeds for Action” (Orbis, 2016) and “The Paradox of Christian Sacrifice: The Loss of Self, the Gift of Self” (Herder and Herder, 2007). She is lead author of “Catholic Moral Traditions and Energy Ethics for the Twenty-First Century” in the Journal of Moral Theology (2016)  and author of other energy ethics essays and articles on faith-based environmentalism.

Erin has participated in the activism of the interfaith environmental and divestment movement since 2003. She holds a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Fordham, a master’s in theology from Boston College, and an A.B. in English from Princeton. She served as an Earth Institute Fellow at Columbia researching environmental advocacy at diverse American congregations