Michael Wright is a father of three and leads the environmental justice ministry at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. He has contributed to national Catholic publications as well as technical journals related to his work as a NASA civil servant. He has a B.S. in Space Sciences and M.S. in Space Technology; he also earned his MSW from Catholic University of America. As a licensed social worker, he volunteers in pastoral counseling and critical-incident stress management. He has solar photovoltaic, solar hot water, and two spring-fed geothermal systems in his 19th-century farmhouse.