Ammon Ripple is the statewide Faith Organizer for Equality Pennsylvania. Since 2014, he has worked with a network of over 625 clergy and 1000 lay people from more than 30 denominations who support LGBT equality in their congregations and communities. After eleven years as a librarian and LGBT activist in Pittsburgh, he received a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 2010.