Ned Joyner is the communications and education associate at the Center for Earth Ethics.

In addition to his work for the Center, Ned is a multidisciplinary artist. Through music, Earth art and collage, he seeks to harness the healing power of beauty to incite joy, delight and wonder. He plays in a folk, roots and country duo called Tattercoats with his partner Charlotte.

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.