ICCT Board Members & Leaders
| Cesanne Berry | Carina Chiscano-Doyle | |
| Michelle Hunter | Susan Kane | Pat & Paul Kelly |
| Lynn Lyle | Rev. Dr. Christian McIvor | Bobbi Mullins |
| Neil Pedersen | Joe Rabenstine | David Rudda |
| Erin Salisbury |
Cesanne Berry
Reading The Population Bomb in junior high school opened Cesanne’s eyes to the ecological limits of our planet. Since then, caring for our fragile and beautiful Earth home has been a guiding force in her life.
As Director of the Durham Early School for 28 years at Carolina Friends School, she appreciated being part of a school where environmental stewardship was a lived value. After retiring from Carolina Friends School in 2019, Cesanne devoted more time to environmental advocacy. She remains active with the Durham Friends Meeting (Quaker) “Earth Care Witness Committee” and participates in a Kalyāṇa Mitta (“spiritual friendship”) environmental group through Triangle Insight Meditation Community. In 2025, she joined the Board of Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle (ICCT) and became Co-Chair of its Advocacy Team, partnering with Bobbi Mullins to advance policies and actions that address the climate crisis and support a more sustainable future.
Carina Chiscano-Doyle
Carina is an enthusiastic scientist and teacher. She obtained her BS ‘95 in Aquatic Biology from the UT in Austin and later received her MS in Environmental Science and Policy from the UMD at College Park. As a specialist in marine botany, she worked all over the world with other marine scientists before working for ICTM (International Center for Toxicology and Medicine) and was responsible for developing and running human health and ecological risk assessments for private companies.
Carina also worked as a member of the Risk Assessment Staff at the American Chemistry Council. In 2011, she and her husband and three children settled in Raleigh. In 2023, she and her third child created The Climate Bears at their church (a sub-group of the JOY Class youth group) under the Youth Leadership Initiative of ICCT. She especially enjoys engaging youth to care for the environment with hands-on projects and activities. She is thrilled to bring her skills and excitement to help ICCT grow their Youth Engagement Action Team.
Michelle Hunter
Michelle Hunter serves as ICCT’s treasurer. She grew up in the Northeast—a bookworm who spent little time playing outside in her urbanized neighborhoods, but deeply loved the region’s sun-dappled forests and rocky beaches. Her enjoyment of literature, care for children, and love of ideas led her to a career as an English teacher.
Over time, with increasing concern about human impacts on the environment, Michelle began adopting and advocating for more sustainable practices.
She now lives in Raleigh with her husband (ICCT’s webmaster) and their son, an Eagle Scout and budding environmental activist in his own right. Michelle also volunteers with her local Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), which aims to help the community prepare for and recover from disasters. Michelle is a member of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church.
Susan Kane
Throughout her career as a healthcare professional and a community advocate, Susan developed a deep understanding that the lack of clean natural resources directly correlates with poor health outcomes in low-income communities. This professional insight fueled her commitment to environmental justice and care for creation. In retirement, her focus is directed toward leadership roles that actively defend marginalized populations disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards, pollution, and systemic environmental racism. It is her goal to educate the community about these environmental hazards and to encourage our leaders to support legislation for a more sustainable environment for all people.
Susan also hopes to create a better future for her two beloved grandchildren who share her love for creation. Susan’s church home is Hayes Barton United Methodist, where she serves as a co-leader on the Creation Care Team. In January 2027, she will become president of the ICCT.
Pat & Paul Kelly
After retirement, Pat, as an elementary counselor, and Paul from the pharmaceutical and real estate industries, developed their passion to care for their common home when they joined their church’s Creation Care ministry. At first the overwhelming needs of the ailing planet paralyzed them until they decided to do just one thing … And that was the beginning of the Franciscan Community Garden in 2010, which is still sustainably growing vegetables for food insecure neighbors.
From its inception ICCT has inspired them to find solidarity with people of faith who care for creation. They are current leads for ICCT’s Earth Friendly Practices action team. They have been working with the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh to inspire creation care in its 94 parishes..
Paul and Pat are the parents of 3 wonderful adult children who have gifted them with 5 amazing grandchildren, all of whom have been given copies of “Drawdown,” and “Braiding Sweetgrass,” in the hope they will find ways to aid the planet.
Lynn Lyle
Lynn is a founding member of ICCT and served as president from 2020 to 2026. She was raised as a Methodist and is now a member of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh. She says, “when I was little and living in Jacksonville, Florida, I never wanted to grow up because grownups always seemed to be inside. My cousins and I loved running free outside in a sprawling park with natural areas, live oaks with Spanish moss, and we loved searching for tadpoles in Willowbranch Creek that runs down to the St. John’s River. Now I’m retired and do what I can to protect the outside and all life on Earth.”
Lynn is retired from a varied career in education serving as a counselor in public schools, a director of a community women’s center at a junior college, a government relations officer at a community college, and a development officer at NC State University. She has a Ph.D. and an M.Ed. from the University of Florida and an A.B. from Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
Bobbi Mullins
Bobbi Mullins has been passionate about the natural world and committed to environmental stewardship for as long as she can remember. After earning a Consulting Herbalist certification and receiving an M.S. in Holistic Nutrition, Bobbi founded FoodFitnessFaith where she worked as a health coach, certified fitness instructor, and blogger. She is also the author of The Finite Foodie Cookbook.
After retiring in 2023, Bobbi became more involved in her community and church. She helped design and install native plant gardens and bring sustainable practices to her church and neighborhood HOA. She is Co-Leader of the Creation Care Team at Hayes Barton United Methodist Church and manages their CSA Farm and Faith partnership. In 2025, she joined the board of ICCT and became Co-Chair of the Advocacy Team.
Neil Pedersen
Neil has always had a love and respect for nature nurtured, largely, during his early years growing up in New England and in his travels to natural settings across the country. But it was after visiting his former college roommate, Jim Antal, who had recently completed writing Climate Church, Climate World, that he became committed to promoting the care of God’s creation in his home church, The Chapel of the Cross, in Chapel Hill.
At the Chapel of the Cross, Neil joined and quickly became the chair of the Creation Care Committee in 2020, serving as chair until stepping down in 2026. Desiring to expand the church’s reach, he joined Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle’s Board in 2024 and has been serving as the coordinator of the liaisons in area faith communities. Neil also is a member of the NC Episcopal Diocese’s Committee on Environmental Ministry.
Joe Rabenstine
Joe’s involvement with Creation Care started first with awe and wonder — as a youngster who loved playing in the woods in Pennsylvania, as a college student earning a B.S. in Man-Environment Relations, and as an adult who raised his family on the pristine Eastern Shore of Maryland, sailing its beautiful rivers and bays and loving the waterfowl so cherished in that region.
Like many retirees, increased time for reflection strengthened Joe’s spirituality and provided opportunity for those simple acts of appreciation of nature. His faithful response has been expressed in environmental actions with his local church’s Creation Care team, as the Co-chair of the North Carolina Episcopal Diocesan Environmental Ministry, and in team and leadership positions with ICCT.
Erin Salisbury
Erin’s call to environmental stewardship began in college where she earned a Bachelor’s in Religious Studies. There at NC State, she took a class on Religion and Contemporary Issues, which included a unit on different religions’ responses to the current ecological crisis the earth is facing. The responses included those of Erin’s own religion: Judaism. Erin left the class feeling inspired to promote the timeless Jewish tradition of stewardship of the land and ethical treatment of animals
Erin became involved with ICCT after seeing an article promoted in the Jewish Federation’s newsletter on an event held at Temple Beth Or that involved ICCT leaders speaking on the subject of environmental justice. She serves on the Board of ICCT and co-leads the Multi-Faith Team with Christian McIvor. In her professional life, she works as an administrator for a startup company based in Raleigh selling machine parts. She is a member of Beth Meyer Synagogue in Raleigh, North Carolina.
David Rudda
David serves as webmaster for the ICCT website starting in 2026. In addition to that work, he also addresses various technical issues with the various platforms like Google Drive, Mailchimp, etc. that ICCT uses. David is originally from Pennsylvania and has lived in the Triangle area for the past two and a half decades.
He has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Penn State University. He is a software engineer/solution architect and is currently actively looking for work.
Rev. Dr. Christian McIvor
Christian is co-leader of the ICCT Multi-faith Action Team. He is Minister of Worship, Music, and the Arts at Greystone Baptist Church, a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church in Raleigh, and he is the Adjunct Professor of Trumpet at Campbell University in Buies Creek. Christian is passionate about continually growing as an agent of compassion, justice, and reconciliation in the Way of Christ and helping others toward the same. He also serves on the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of NC’s Music Ministry Advisory Team (past chair) and he serves on the Christians Caring for Creation (C3) Board of Directors. He formerly served as a board member for Baptist Women in Ministry of NC and as a steering committee member for the CBF Environmental Stewardship Network and the Alliance of Baptists Creation Justice Community. He was also a 2021 BJC (Baptist Joint Committee) Fellow. His spirituality has been deeply influenced by Eastern thought and he believes that caring for creation is the best way to care for all of our neighbors and honor the interconnectedness of all things.