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Wm. Andrew Schwartz

Executive Director

Dr. Wm. Andrew Schwartz is a scholar, educator, and activist working at the intersection of process philosophy, ecological civilization, and global cross-cultural engagement. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies (CPS), Co-Founder & Vice President of the Institute for Ecological Civilization (EcoCiv), and Associate Professor of Process Studies and Comparative Philosophy at Claremont School of Theology (CST). His research and teaching covers a wide range of topics, such as environmental philosophy, philosophy of religion, Asian and comparative philosophies, metaphysics, economic philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of education, and more. However, his current work mainly focuses the application of process philosophy in understanding reality, understanding humanity, and understanding how best to organize systems of society for ecological civilization. He is author/editor of 7 books, including What is Ecological Civilization (2019) and The Metaphysics of Paradox (2018). Most recently, he spent the 2025–26 academic year in China as Visiting Associate Professor at Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU) in Zhuhai, China. As Executive Director, Andrew has overall strategic and operational responsibility for CPS, including development and implementation of the CPS mission, programs, and strategic vision.

Andrew M. Davis

Program Director

Dr. Andrew M. Davis is an American process philosopher, theologian, and scholar of the cosmos. He is Research and Academic Director for the Center for Process Studies, where he researches, writes, teaches, and organizes conferences on various aspects of process-relational thought. An advocate of metaphysics and meaning in a hospitable universe, he approaches philosophy as the endeavor to systematically think through what reality must be like—because we are a part of it. He is author, editor, and co-editor of nearly a dozen books, including Mind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy (2020); Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy (2022); Metaphysics of Exo-Life: Toward a Constructive Whiteheadian Cosmotheology (2023); and Whitehead and Teilhard: From Organism to Omega (2025). His forthcoming book is a comprehensive yet conversational introduction to Alfred North Whitehead titled Whitehead’s Universe: A Prismatic Introduction. Follow his work at andrewmdavis.info.

Zhihe Wang

China Project Co-Director

Dr. Zhihe Wang, a former member of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, received his Master’s Degree in Western Philosophy from Peking University, China, his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Claremont Graduate University, USA, and is a leading figure in constructive postmodern movement in China. He has published numerous books and more than 160 articles. His recent books include Process and Pluralism: Chinese Thought on the Harmony of Diversity, Second Enlightenment (with Meijun Fan). He also helped establish more than 30 research institutes on process thought and constructive postmodern studies in China. As co-director of CPS China Project, his major responsibility is to charge the communication between the Western Process community and Chinese community by organizing international conferences, arranging lectures, translating process books, and Chinese visiting scholar program.

Meijun Fan

China Project Co-Director

Dr. Meijun Fan serves as the Co-Director of the China Project and is primarily responsible for overseeing Cultural Communication, the newspaper publication of the project. Additionally, she manages the Chinese visiting scholar program, conference program, and publicity efforts. Previously, Fan held the position of Vice-Chair and Professor at Beijing Normal University’s Philosophy Department. She completed her doctoral studies in Chinese traditional aesthetics and aesthetic education at the same university. Fan has authored six books and co-authored seven, including the notable work Cobb and China: An Intensive Study of Cobb’s Postmodern Ecological Civilization Thoughts. Her book Contemporary Interpretation of Chinese Traditional Aesthetic received the “Excellence Award in Philosophy and Social Science” in China in 1997. She has also published over 100 academic articles in Chinese and English.
Sheri D. Kling

Sheri D. Kling

Director of Spiritual Formation and Research

Sheri D. Kling, PhD is an interdisciplinary scholar who explores how human beings move from fragmentation toward belonging through soul formation, relational worldviews, and communities of spiritual practice. Integrating Jungian depth psychology, relational theology, human sciences, and empirical research on meaning and human flourishing, she serves as Director of Spiritual Formation and Research for the Center for Process Studies, where she leads the John Templeton Foundation-funded initiative Modern Meaning: Spiritual Yearning and the Quest for a Flourishing World. She is a faculty member of the Haden Institute and Graduate Theological Foundation, adjunct faculty at Claremont School of Theology, and serves in the advisory circle for the World Institute for Science, Religion, and Culture. Dr. Kling is the author of A Process Spirituality: Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation, has contributed to several additional volumes, and is a frequent keynote speaker who leads courses, concerts, and spiritual retreats exploring spirituality, transformation, and human flourishing. She can be found online at https://sherikling.com/.

Richard Livingston

Richard Livingston

Program Director of Education & Community

Dr. Richard Livingston is Program Director of Education and Community, former Executive Director of the Cobb Institute, and a member of the Process & Faith Core Team. He received his PhD in 2015 from Claremont Graduate University, where he specialized in Philosophy of Religion and Theology. Richard taught as an adjunct instructor in philosophy and religious studies at four colleges in Southern California from 2011-2020, and has worked in IT since the early 1990s. He holds a Master’s Degree in Constructive Studies in Religion from the University of Chicago (2005) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Near Eastern Studies from Brigham Young University (2001).

George Lucas

George Lucas

Director of CPS Archives

Dr. George Lucas is newly-appointed A.N. Whitehead Visiting Professor and Director of the CPS Archives at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. He is Professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy, and recently retired after 10 years as General Editor of the Critical Edition of Whitehead. He wrote his doctoral dissertation at Northwestern University on Hegel and Whitehead in 1978, and subsequently wrote several books and articles on various kinds of process philosophy and their histories, culminating in The Rehabilitation of Whitehead: An Analytic and Historical Assessment of Process Philosophy (State University of New York Press, 1990). He was thereafter the Editor of the SUNY series in Philosophy for 18 years. In 2023, his recent book, The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) was awarded the J.N. Findlay prize for the best title in the field of metaphysics, 2019-2023, by the Metaphysical Society of America.
Jared Morningstar

Jared Morningstar

Communications Director

Jared Morningstar is an independent scholar and public intellectual based in Chicago whose work explores philosophies and wisdom traditions that are attuned to our time of profound cultural, ecological, and spiritual transition. His research focuses especially on process philosophy and theology, classical and contemporary Islamic thought, metamodernism, comparative religion, and non-ordinary experiences. Across his writing and public scholarship, he explores how religious traditions can be articulated to respond constructively to contemporary challenges such as nihilism, interreligious conflict, ecological crisis, and the so-called “meaning crisis.” Jared’s work has appeared in a variety of publications including Metamodern Theory and Praxis, Process Perspectives, and Emerge alongside the edited volumes Open and Relational Theology and its Social and Political Implications: Muslim and Christian Perspectives and Amipotence: Expansion & Application. He is a frequent lecturer and conference presenter and has appeared on numerous podcasts and public forums to discuss religion, process thought, Islam, and metamodernism. He holds degrees in Religion and Scandinavian Studies from Gustavus Adolphus College and currently works with the Center for Process Studies and the Psychedelic Medicine Association.
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Matthew Baker

Communications Specialist

Matthew Baker is an independent researcher working at the intersection of process and radical theologies, Continental philosophy, new materialisms, and embodied cognition. His interests range across thinkers like Whitehead, Deleuze, Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Merleau-Ponty with an abiding curiosity toward the esoteric and hermetic currents within mainstream theological traditions, expanded theories of consciousness, technology, and the ecological and civilizational stakes of our present moment. He has cohosted and produced several podcasts, including ‘Interrupted‘, the official podcast of the Westar Institute, ‘War Machine‘, and ‘The Catacombic Machine‘. Matt is also a professional graphic, sound, and instructional designer, and is currently working as Organizational Change Management Lead for Veolia North America, where he leads change strategy for large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives.

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J.D. Mechelke

Virtual Event and Recording Technician

J.D. Mechelke is a PhD candidate at Drew University in Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion. His research and teaching emerge from nomadic life and explore how movement, ecology, and place reshape process philosophy and theological imagination. J.D. is a nomad on the public lands of North America.

Kaeti MacNeil

Kaeti MacNeil

Video Editor

Kaeti MacNeil is an American artist and experimental animator working at the intersection of painting, animation, and process philosophy. Her practice renders the immaterial dimensions of consciousness as visible form, exploring the relationship between the material and the spiritual through moving image. She serves as Animation Director for the John Templeton Foundation-funded initiative Modern Meaning: Spiritual Yearning and the Quest for a Flourishing World and as an Advisor to the SPARKS Community Cohort. Her animated short Carasoul: a Portrait in Nth Dimensions (2022) won Best Animated Short at the Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image in New York City. She presented and exhibited at the Ammerman Center’s 18th Triennial Symposium at Connecticut College and was commissioned by the Aga Khan Museum for its Light Up the Dark exhibition. She holds a BFA in Experimental Animation from OCAD University and is a Luminary with Science New Wave. Learn more at https://kaetimacneil.com

Korea Project

Dongwoo Lee

Korea Project Director

Dr. Dongwoo Lee is a founder of EcoCiv Korea and an Executive Director. Dr. Lee is also a director of the Korea Project at the Center for Process Studies. He is an author of several books. His latest book, Imagining Post-Pandemic Meta-Church, which was published in South Korea in September, 2021 became the number one bestselling E-book in the Religious section at Ridibooks’ store. He earned the PhD degree at Claremont School of Theology. Dr. Lee’s major areas of expertise are comparative religion and philosophy, process thoughts, postcolonialism, poststructuralism, contextual studies, economics and ecological studies. He is currently located in Los Angeles, California. He enjoys hiking trails, cycling and watching movies with his wife.

Heeyoung Jung

Korea Project Assistant

Heeyoung Jung is currently a Ph.D. student in Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology. She received an S.T. M from Union Theological Seminary in New York and an M.Div from Drew University in New Jersey. She also holds a Th.M in systematic theology from Yonsei University and a B.A in Theology from Methodist Theological University in Seoul. Her academic interests and researches in Process studies are eco-theology, eco-feminist theology, feminist studies, religious philosophies, postmodern studies, comparative studies, and educations from a Korean woman perspective. Her research is highly cross-cultural, interreligious, and intersecting Western philosophy, theology, and Asian philosophies and religions, including Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. She is currently an assistant to Ecological Civilization in Korea project and works on researching and translating books, articles, and newspapers to support the Korea project.

Whitehead Research Project

Brian G. Henning

Whitehead Research Project Executive Director

Dr. Brian Henning is Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research Project. Dr. Henning holds a M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University. He has published three books and has published articles in Process Studies, International Philosophical Quarterly, The Modern Schoolman, and Ethics & the Environment. His 2005 book, The Ethics of Creativity, won the 2007 Findlay Book Prize from the Metaphysical Society of America for the best work of metaphysics published between 2001 and 2006. He is co-editor of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies book series through Lexington Books.

Joseph Petek

WRP Director of Research and Publication

Dr. Joseph Petek is the Director of Research and Publication for the Whitehead Research Project and Executive Editor for the Critical Edition of Whitehead at Gonzaga University. He has co-edited three books on Whitehead: Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism (2017), Whitehead at Harvard, 1924–1925 (2020), and The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925–1927: General Metaphysical Problems of Science (2021). His latest book is Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead (2022), which examines the significance of Whitehead’s Harvard lectures and other previously unknown archival materials.

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Common Good Film Festival

Jeremy Fackenthal

Director of the Common Good Film Festival

Dr. Jeremy Fackenthal is Director of the Common Good Film Festival and an independent documentary filmmaker and videographer. After completing a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Theology from Claremont Graduate University, he began using his philosophical background beyond the academy to raise questions and craft narratives. His love for moving im­ages grew together over the course of his adolescence, from his first experience wielding a VHS camcorder to his first 40-minute documentary produced during his senior year in college. In recent years, Jeremy’s work has included video content produced for clients and shorter independent projects. In 2017 Jeremy shot and edited Spitting Fire, a short documentary on spoken word poetry as a means of personal formation for adolescents. His current ongoing project is a fea­ture-length documentary on the life and work of Walter Benjamin and the possibility of art as a site for radical political action.

Jim Fahey

Assistant Director of the Common Good Film Festival

Jim Fahey is an emerging film critic and curator who works as the Assistant Director of the Common Good Film Festival. Born and raised in Bellevue, WA, Jim has a passionate interest in bringing challenging, high-quality cinema to the world, and aims to bring his knowledge and expertise to this year’s Common Good Film Festival. He has spent the past year building his resumé at the University of Edinburgh, where he completed a Master’s program in Film, Exhibition & Curation. During that time he served as a film critic for The Student, the longest-running student newspaper in the UK. He actively writes criticism at Airplane Mode, a film-review newsletter currently available for free on Substack.

Emeriti Co-Directors

David Ray Griffin

Faculty Co-Director (Emeritus)

Dr. David Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, where he remains a co-director of the Center for Process Studies. He has published (as author or editor) 36 books in theology, philosophy, philosophy of religion, the relation between science and religion, and social and political issues. Author of Panentheism and Scientific Naturalism, God Exists but Gawd Does Not, and Protecting Our Common, Sacred Home: Pope Francis and Process Thought.

John B. Cobb, Jr.

Faculty Co-Director (Emeritus)

Dr. John B. Cobb, Jr. is an American theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist. Described by historian Gary Dorrien as one of the two most important North American theologians of the twentieth century, Cobb is the preeminent scholar in the field of process philosophy and process theology, and the author of more than fifty books. In 2014, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Cobb is a founding co-director of the Center for Process Studies and Professor Emeritus of Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University.

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki

Faculty Co-Director (Emerita)

Dr. Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki is Professor Emerita, Claremont School of Theology, Faculty Co-Director Emerita of the Center for Process Studies, and Director Emerita of the Common Good Film Festival (formerly, Whitehead International Film Festival). Among her many books are God Christ Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology; The End of Evil: Process Eschatology in Historical Context; The Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology; and Through a Lens Darkly: Tracing Redemption in Film.

Monica A. Coleman

Faculty Co-Director (Emerita)

Dr. Monica A. Coleman is John and Patricia Cochran Scholar for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware. She spent nearly fifteen years in graduate theological education at Claremont School of Theology, the Center for Process Studies and Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Coleman has earned degrees from Harvard University, Vanderbilt University and Claremont Graduate University. She has received funding from leading foundations in the United States, including the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation), among others. Answering her call to ministry at 19 years of age, Coleman is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and an initiate in traditional Yoruba religion.
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Philip Clayton

Faculty Co-Director (Emeritus)

Dr. Philip Clayton has taught for several decades at Claremont School of Theology; written or edited 26 books; held guest professorships at Harvard, Univ. of Cambridge, and Munich; founded (with Andrew Schwartz) the Institute for Ecological Civilization; worked with Zhihe Wang and Meijun Fan for 15 years as president of the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China; and supported interfaith partnerships around the world. As a scholar he explores the intersections of philosophy, theology, and science; as an activist he works toward the development of an ecological civilization. He is particularly interested in the evolving understanding of Christian faith in the 21st century, and the societal changes that are necessary for establishing sustainable forms of civilization on this planet.

Roland Faber

Faculty Co-Director (Emeritus)

Dr. Roland Faber is Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor of Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University, Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies (CPS), and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research Project (WRP). As Founder of WRP, he is the initiator of the series of International Conferences of WRP since 2007 and their publication, the co-editor of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series, and co-initiator of the Critical Edition of Whitehead’s Works. Research and publications are developed at whiteheadresearch.org. Professional information is provided at faber.whiteheadresearch.org.