Ned Joyner is the communications manager at the Center for Earth Ethics, where his love of the natural world animates how he communicates about the Earth. 

Ned studied cultural anthropology at Indiana University. He holds a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, where he focused on the intersection between religion and ecology. In 2022, Union awarded him the Muilenburg Prize in Biblical Scholarship and the Wyn Wright Prize for Biblical Languages, and in 2023, the Scholarly Excellence Award. He completed his M.Div. field education at Columbia Climate School.

Born and raised in rural Indiana, Ned resides in Washington Heights, Manhattan with his wife.