By Ingrid Gronstal
This June is a special Pride month for me. It is the first time I have been fully out during Pride, and I am reveling in no longer feeling shame about the fact that I am queer. Fear of the unknown is the biggest obstacle to coming out.
This summer Iowa Interfaith Power & Light has the honor and privilege to work with two Iowa students who attend colleges across our state. Please welcome our student leaders and learn more about them in their own words.
For our Called to Climate Action leadership program, we meet once a week as an entire Iowa IPL team. This week our student leaders Claira and Parker (you can meet them in this post) stated that coming out of COVID, we shouldn’t let the world go back to the way it was before.
While the work of Iowa IPL is grounded in empowering Iowans to take bold and just climate action, that work often gets noticed in other parts of the country. We are building partnerships across the national IPL movement as well as with other climate leaders, especially those grounded in faith.
A few years ago, when I had just started at Iowa IPL, I used to say, “the great thing about leading a faith based organization is that I can honestly say, I’m not sure how this is going to work out, but I have faith it will.”
Join our dynamic and growing organization as we work together to empower Iowans to take bold and just climate action. The Program Associate works with the Associate Director to conduct a range of activities that support the mission of Iowa IPL’s four focus areas.
