UU FaithAction NJ’s Environmental Justice Task Force (EJTF) is pleased to share that Mike Skelly is serving as its new Chair. A long-time member of the Task Force and lead with the group’s work with the NJ Environmental Education Commissions & Student Learning Standards, Mike brings critical expertise from his experiences in his professional career.

By Thomas Moran

At the January 2026 monthly meeting of the Criminal Justice Reform Task Force (CJR-TF), after a rather bitterly disappointing “lame duck” session of the Legislature, the task force decided to brainstorm around all the objectives we had been holding, and all the strains that called for attention, but never seemed to get enough traction to actually launch a powerful effort.

By Regina Branca, Reproductive Justice Task Force

Nationally the targeted attacks on transgender people have been getting coverage in the news. However, you may not be aware of the coordinated efforts taking place here, in NJ, to overturn policy 5756 that protects the privacy of transgender students in our public schools – some of which were successful.