Dr Tucker is a Professor of Religion at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She is also co-founder and co-director with John Grim of Harvard University's
Forum on Religion and Ecology. Tucker has been a committee member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 1986 and is vice president of the American Teilhard Association. She is author of many books on religion and ecology, including Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (2003).