YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULT OPPORTUNITIES
JUSTICE, PEACE, AND INTEGRITY OF CREATION (JPIC)

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If you are a young adult, the best place to start is to review our Immaculate Conception Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) webpages. We would love for you to share your gifts in any of our JPIC ministries.

• Our parish also has two young adult groups (El Sembrador and IC Young Adults). These groups do participate in various social justice initiatives in our parish as part of their groups activities, but they do not specifically focus on the Gospel call to Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC).
• For those under the age of 18, you can find lots of opportunities through our youth ministry and can reach out to our youth minister Bobby Denne directly to learn more.

​If you have any questions regarding our parish's Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) ministries, please contact me directly. - Ken Chiha, Director of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC)​

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​HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

Each year, many members of our youth ministry choose to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity of Durham. Our JPIC and Youth Ministry parishioners have found volunteering with Habitat to be a popular and extremely rewarding experience.

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TREES DURHAM

The Youth Ministry also volunteers with Trees Durham, helping to support its effort "to invest in and sustain a healthy, socially-just, climate-resilient tree canopy in Durham, NC." Below are some photos from their last tree planting event.

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PREVIOUS JPIC YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULT EVENTS 

CLIMATE JUSTICE
​YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULT GATHERING

Thank you to all our high school students and young adults who attended our two-day in-person conversations together to learn about the connections among environmental, racial, and economic justice. It was great to see so many young people in our community coming together to support local efforts to be part of the solution for systemic change, helping to protect our planet as agents of hope in protecting our common home. It is your future!​​

SPECIAL GUESTS

Dr. Kristi Pullen Fedinick

Dr. Kristi Pullen Fedinick is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health of the Milken Institute School of Public Health of the George Washington University. With over 25 years of multidisciplinary research experience, Dr. Pullen Fedinick has worked for the last 15 years at the intersection of science and public policy to advance data-driven, health-protective, community-oriented solutions to environmental problems. Her work has focused on effecting positive change at the local and national levels, where she has used scientific tools to advance protections for people and communities that are disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation. Dr. Pullen Fedinick has authored multiple policy reports and comments, peer-reviewed articles, and served on numerous influential committees of the National Academies of Sciences and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including appointments to the EPA Chartered Science Advisory Board and a workgroup of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee on Cumulative Impacts.  Dr. Pullen Fedinick has served in leadership positions within several environmental organizations including as the Executive Director of the Center for Earth, Energy, and Democracy and as the inaugural Chief Science Officer of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Dr. Pullen Fedinick holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology with a focus on biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Marinel Sumook Ubaldo

Marinel Sumook Ubaldo is a graduate student in Environmental Economics and Policy at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. She also is a Filipino climate activist who helped to organize the first youth climate strike in her country. She testified as a community witness for the Philippines Commission on Human Rights at the United Nations Climate Conference and at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing called "Combatting Climate Change in East Asia and the Pacific."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinel_Sumook_Ubaldo 

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If you have questions regarding our various JPIC ministries, please contact:
Kennith M. Chiha, Director of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC)
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church - 901-A West Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC 27701
(919) 682-3449 Ext. 293 - [email protected]