About Me

Cedar Monroe is an author, activist, and PhD student.

He is a PhD student at University College Cork, where he also serves as assistant lecturer in the Study of Religions department. He is studying the relationships between nature based spiritualities, land, and environmental activism in the U.S. and Ireland. He did postgraduate research in Indigenous Studies and is particularly interested in supporting Indigenous sovereignty and land back and addressing settler colonialism in the U.S.

He holds a Masters in Divinity from Episcopal Divinity School and worked as an interfaith chaplain in poor communities for thirteen years. He cofounded Chaplains on the Harbor, a ministry for and with people experiencing homelessness, incarceration, and addiction in western Washington state; cofounded Harbor Roots Farm, a supportive employment project supporting people coming out of jail to learn how to farm and connect with the earth; organized with the Poor People’s Campaign; and is the author of Trash: A Poor White Journey (2024).

Cedar continues to organize in a movement to end poverty, organizing with the University of the Poor in the United States and the Climate Justice University Union in Ireland.

Cedar is on the faculty of Cherry Hill Seminary, a seminary serving Pagan and nature-based spiritual communities.

He lives with his partner and two cats in Cork City, Ireland along the River Lee and spends his spare time birdwatching, foraging, and exploring Ireland’s remaining woodlands.