Amy L. Dalton, Executive Director

Amy L. Dalton is a faith-rooted scholar-activist who has been deeply involved in peace and justice organizing since age 13 when she began serving on the Reconciling Committee of her local Methodist church, 35 years before the denomination removed homophobic language from its organizational documentation. Since then, Amy has organized broadly within many faith-based and secular movements. Her professional experience spans nonprofit development, publishing and communications, and community organizing.

Amy holds a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary with a research focus in faith-based community organizing, and a Bachelor of Arts with high honors in sociology/anthropology from Swarthmore College with research focuses in prison history, museum studies, anthropology of religion and critical social theory. Amy has been trained by PICO (now Faith In Action) and IAF, and participated for five years in the Brecht Forum’s Revolutions Study Group, serving on the convening team for several sessions.

She is a founding member of the Community of Living Traditions, a multifaith intentional community, and serves as Treasurer of the Board of Proyecto Faro, a Rockland County-based immigrant justice group. She has served on the Research Team of the Ambazonia Prisoners of Conscience Support Network, a diaspora formation connected to her partner’s homeland. Amy has organized with the global indymedia network, the sanctuary movement, prison and death penalty abolition groups, and grassroots disaster response. She spent her early years in a Jesuit community, was raised primarily as a United Methodist, went to a Quaker college, and has worked for Lutheran and Presbyterian formations. Amy is a mother and a person who lives with a disability.

She currently serves as the Executive Director of CLBSJ, and is an ex-officio (non-voting) member of the governing Board.