Iowa Interfaith Power & Light, a statewide nonprofit organization mobilizing the religious community to become leaders in the movement for climate action, has named Matt Russell as its new executive director. Russell is currently a sustainable agriculture leader at the Drake University Agricultural Law Center; he will fill the position beginning in April. He succeeds the Rev. Susan Hendershot Guy, who left the organization in January to lead the national movement as president of Interfaith Power & Light. “Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time,” Russell said in a release. “Iowa’s communities of faith play an unparalleled role in helping Iowans understand the moral imperative in solving this problem caused by human activity.” Currently, Russell works as the resilient agriculture coordinator at Drake’s Agricultural Law Center. He farms with his spouse in rural Lacona and grew up on a family farm near Anita.