Chris Fici

Christopher Fici is a scholar of theology/religion currently based in New York City

Christopher is a Ph.D candidate in Theology/Religion, with a focus on Eco-Theology and Comparative Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York. The focus of his studies and research is the anticipatory community, or those communities anticipating and creating ecologically-sound and socially-just personal, communal, and religious frameworks in the transition away from a fossil-fuel based society

Christopher spent five years studying and living as a monk in Gaudiya Vaishnava communities in West Virginia and in New York City, where remains associated as a Vaishnava scholar-practitioner with The Bhakti Center. He is a consultant and scholar-in-residence in eco-ministry for the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary. He is a board member for Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hinduism. He is also the current active vice-president for the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Academy of Religion.