Michael Gagne serves as the Eco-Justice organizer for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and as the executive director of Envision Peace Museum, an emerging museum dedicated to peace and active nonviolence. A graduate of the Green Corps Environmental Leadership Program, Michael has worked on a number of grassroots campaigns in Canada and the U.S. and has facilitated workshops on ecophilosophy and social change for a wide variety of organizations.

Michael is a husband, a father, a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, and a founding member of the Earth Quaker Action Team - a group currently working to stop mountaintop removal coal mining by targeting the financiers of this practice.