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Director of Kinship Plot

Stephanie Vander Lugt is a minister and practitioner based in Charlotte, NC who works at the intersection of justice, faith, healing, and personal/communal transformation. Living and working in four different countries, Stephanie has been formed and enlivened by the richness of many communities and cultures and is passionate about the capacity of the global church. She has spent the past 8 years organizing against mass incarceration with returning citizens in Charlotte and currently works with residents at the Mecklenburg County detention center teaching courses in life skills and embodied transformation guided by frameworks of transformative justice and liberation. She is the director of Kinship Plot, an emerging organization dedicated to reimagining just and resonant relationships through learning, contemplation, activism, art, land care, and life together. She holds an MA in Theological Studies, is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, and is pursuing an MSW from The University of North Carolina. In the wild edges of her time, you will find her tending the garden, fermenting something in the kitchen, sharing tea with a friend, or engaging in creative practice through textile arts.