Sarah Nahar, MDiv, PhD, PhD teaches in the University of Michigan’s Program in the Environment. In 2025 she graduated with a PhD in Environmental Studies and a PhD in Religion. An emerging expert of Excreta Infrastructure Technology Systems (ExITs), her doctoral work centers on ecological regeneration, community cultivation, and discard studies. She found that the toilet, both the ritual and the receptacle, is a fecund site of inquiry for questions of critical environmental justice. Helping society deal with our crap, literally and metaphorically, is her calling. Therefore, Dr. Nahar is also a nonviolent action trainer and interspiritual theologian. Previously, she was a 2019 Rotary Peace Fellow and worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been the Executive Director of Community Peacemaker Teams, an organization committed to building partnerships to transform violence and oppression through unarmed civilian accompaniment. She attended Spelman College, majoring in Comparative Women’s Studies and International Studies, minoring in Spanish. She has an MDiv from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. Dr. Nahar founded EFERT in the same year her child was born. EFERT stands for Eco-Friendly Elkhart: Realizing Transition. organization that engages the Elkhart community and beyond for climate justice. One of EFERT’s first programs is Anticolonial Arrivants, a political formation and network of support that Sarah convenes, for People of the Global Majority living on Turtle Island who want to participate in indigenous solidarity, as climate justice work rooted in decolonial solidarity and racial justice is the most effective. Through her work connecting the struggle of the people and the struggle of the earth, she was honored to be selected for the inaugural cohort of Black Midwest Environmental Justice fellows, hosted by the Black Midwest Initiative at the University of Chicago. As hobbies, Sarah plays capoeira and searches for vegan ice cream.