Executive Director

The Rev. John Gibb Millspaugh, M.Div., M.P.A., is the grandson of Iowa farmers and is a graduate of both Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Kennedy School. His award-winning justice work has focused on modern slavery, LGBTQIA+ rights, climate justice, and animal protection.

John led the team that organized over 400 congregations to collectively write and adopt Unitarian Universalism’s intersectional “Ethical Eating” statement in 2011, the first instance of a U.S. faith adopting a position statement of its kind.

John’s thoughts on social ethics have been featured in the Boston Globe, the Orange County Register, C-SPAN, and the Los Angeles Times. He now works as Director of Education for the Better Food Foundation and  Farm Forward, and is the Project Director for the Food Studies Initiative of the University of San Diego.

John served Unitarian Universalist congregations for 14 years. He and his wife and son live on the unceded land of the Kumeyaay with their beloved mutt, who may or may not be a black lab mix, in San Diego, CA.