Sharing From the Heart is a monthly initiative where young people from China and the United States come together around the pressing ecological, cultural, and spiritual issues of our time. Through sharing thoughts, personal stories, and actions in local settings, Chinese and American youth will begin building cross-cultural bonds to support a vision of a new, ecological civilization.

Hi, I’m Oliver! I am a human who has spent most of my life living in the region of New England in the northeast of the United States. I am currently watching the leaves turn gold and red and brown outside my window here in New Haven, Connecticut. I studied Cultural Anthropology at Yale College and then later got my master’s degree from Yale Divinity School, where I met professors Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim and began working as a research assistant with the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, which they run. I’ve worked on creating the Forum’s new webpage on Ecological Civilization as well as more recently gathering and curating resources for an upcoming project on Ecological Spiritualities and Sentience of the More than Human World. I am continually inspired by the many folks who devote their time to ecological stewardship and care for our collective planet.