Our Board and Staff

Caleb Koebble
Executive Director

Holding an M.A. in Environmental Philosophy from the University of Montana (2022) and a B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Valdosta State University (2018), Caleb Koebble joins us as Montana Interfaith Power and Light’s first Executive Director. Originally from southern Georgia and growing up in the United Methodist Church, he came to Montana to pursue his graduate degree. During his time as a graduate student, Caleb had the opportunity to intern and coordinate with Faith and Climate Action Montana in Missoula. Caleb has had an interest in the intersection of religion and the environment since his teens, but found the academic fields of environmental philosophy and religion as spaces to explore these intersections. When he is not working you can find him hiking, enjoying a good book, whipping up some southern cooking, or keeping up with the weather during hurricane and tornado season.

Graham Cummins
Board President, Legislative Advocacy and Policy Committee Chair

He is a former biologist with a lifelong respect for the dependency between people and their environment, and a growing concern about how people and technology can maintain a sustainable relationship with the living world. He is a religious naturalist who finds spiritual meaning in the interdependency of life. Graham spent the best parts of his childhood outdoors in Montana, his young adult life, learning science and technology, and is still searching for a way to bring these interests into a beneficial balance. He lives in Bozeman with his wife, Bree Cummins.

Connie Campbell-Pearson
Secretary

The Rev. Connie Campbell-Pearson is an ordained deacon with the Episcopal church. She is working as the facilitator/admin for the Faith, Science, and Climate Action Conference. She serves full time at St. James Episcopal Church in Bozeman and Gethsemane Episcopal in Manhattan, Montana. She has her own LLC that focuses on database consulting and is involved in several major projects in the community, including this FSCA Conference and a Housing First Village Concept for the homeless. Her real involvement in the care of creation began two years ago when she attended a round table for the Crown of the Continent. She had a complete paradigm shift in her understanding about our relationship to the earth and has been working since that time to raise awareness about climate action.

Rick Taylor
Treasurer

Rick is a native Montanan, born and raised in Billings, and graduated from Montana State University. His engineering career was spent in the eastern United States. While in Delaware in 2011, he represented Skyline United Methodist Church at the founding of Delaware’s Interfaith Power & Light chapter. Upon retirement Rick returned to Bozeman where he relishes playing in the mountains and exploring the outdoors. The “work” he pursues is creation care and sustainability to enable a livable world for his three children, their families, and especially his grandchildren.

Roxanne Klingensmith
Governance and Nominating Committee Chair

The Rev. Roxanne Klingensmith lives in Bozeman, Montana, and is a Deacon in the Episcopal Church of Montana, serving at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Big Timber. She has served the people of Gallatin Valley and Montana, working for the rights of those incarcerated, ministering to those with alcohol and drug dependencies, and, most recently, engaging with the care of creation. She’s also working with Deacons around the nation to raise awareness that this fragile island, earth, our home, needs protection now more than ever! She is committed to finding ways to see that this happens now! and not later…

Roxanne Hoblitt

Roxanne is a Montana native who grew up in Livingston. Coming from an outdoor family, she wants to be able to pass on her love and awe of nature to her young grandchildren and for them also to have similar experiences. In the late 70’s, her husband, Ritt, designed a passive solar house, and both of them helped build it in the Gallatin Valley. Even after living in their home for over 40 years, they still marvel how warm their house can be on those sunny wintry days. Traveling abroad after retiring from teaching high school English has opened her eyes to climate change worldwide and how different countries are rising to this challenge. Since retiring, she has also become more actively involved in social justice issues. To be a better steward of creation, her faith calls her to learn from other faith traditions and science.

Kay Lansverk

Born and raised in Vancouver, Washington, Kay Lansverk has lived in Bozeman since 1988, where she has actively participated in ecumenical programs and community outreach efforts. She has a Social Work degree and World Religion degree from Pacific Lutheran University and used that education as a social worker, and then as Director of Education at Bozeman United Methodist Church for 20 years. With her husband Marvin, and their two grown daughters (both now working as environmental scientists and educators), Kay is committed to applying faith, science, and love of the earth to make a positive difference. .