2024 Theme
Expanding the Tent: Young Adult Leadership and Co-Responsibility in the Catholic Church
For leaders of the Church, young adults are top of mind in nearly every sector — it is a matter of deep concern for bishops and pastors, as well religious brothers and sisters, and leaders of Catholic organizations. Of all the issues facing the Church, young adult leadership is one of the few that is galvanizing, that unites Catholics across divides. As we consider the future of the Church, there is concern for the pipeline of leadership, for formation of emerging lay leaders to serve in critical roles. There is concern for recruitment and retention, specifically of young adults to leadership positions, and for developing a culture that has a diversity of thought, representation, and action. Young adults are not an addendum to the leadership of the Church — they must be afforded a central role.
Our Cohosts
Cardinals and Archbishops
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich
Archdiocese of Chicago
Cardinal Wilton Gregory
Archdiocese of Washington
Cardinal Seán O'Malley, OFM Cap.
Archdiocese of Boston
Cardinal Christophe Pierre
Apostolic Nunciature
Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, CSsR
Archdiocese of Newark
Catholic Higher Education
Rev. Peter M. Donohue, OSA
President, Villanova University
Rev. Michael Garanzini, SJ
Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU)
Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, CM
Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU)
Rev. John Jenkins, CSC
President, University of Notre Dame
Rev. Juan Molina
Mexican American Catholic College
National Catholic Organizations
Sister Mary Bendyna, OP
Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (CMSWR)
Sean Callahan
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Rev. Frank Donio, SAC
Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM)
Regina Haney
Executive Director, National Association of Church Personnel Administrators (NAPCA)
Paul Jarzembowski
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
Alexia Kelley
Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities (FADICA)
Christina Lamas
National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (NFCYM)
Edgar Morales
Catholic Association for Latino Leadership (CALL)
Nicole Perone
National Institute for Ministry with Young Adults (NIMYA)
Kerry Robinson
Catholic Charities USA
Elisabeth Román
National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry (NCCHM)
Rosie C. Shawver
Catholic Campus Ministry Association (CCMA)
Lincoln Snyder
National Catholic Education Association (NCEA)
Nicholas Stein
National Institute for Ministry with Young Adults (NIMYA)
Sr. Carol Zinn, SSJ
Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)
Rome
Sr. Nathalie Becquart, XMCJ
Synod of Bishops, Vatican
Fr. David McCallum, SJ
Discerning Leadership Program
Young Adult Advisory Committee
Vicente Del Real
Founder, Iskali
Vicente is the founder of Iskali, and has a Master's in Pastoral Arts from Catholic Theological Union. He teaches part-time at the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University in Chicago. Over the past 10 years, Vicente has been able to impact the lives of hundreds of young Latinos who have benefited from Iskali’s many programs including retreats, small-group communities, leadership development initiatives, scholarship program, and a mentorship program. Vicente believes in the potential of young people and is actively filling the gap in resources aimed at supporting first, second, and third generation immigrants. He is passionate about helping these young people pursue higher education and so recently launched a mentorship program and scholarship fund. Under his leadership, today Iskali is one of the leading organizations in young adult ministry with Latinos in the Nation.
Vicente Del Real
Founder, Iskali
Niru De Silva
Director of Retreats, FOCUS
Niru De Silva is the Director of Retreats at FOCUS. He is a second generation Sri Lankan-American and Catholic convert with a dual degree in Chemistry and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia. Upon graduation, he served as a FOCUS Missionary at Columbia University and served various roles spanning 7 years working with FOCUS. He also worked for the Diocese of Arlington as the Coordinator of Young Adult Ministry. During his time in Arlington, Niru helped create new initiatives such as T.B.G. (Truth, Beauty, Goodness), Seven Churches, Exalt, and Men's and Women's Retreats. He started and led bilingual gatherings of parish leaders through Summit/Conferencia and ASCEND. He lives in Colorado with his wife and daughter.
Niru De Silva
Director of Retreats, FOCUS
Anna Gordon
Program Director, Institute for Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Georgetown University
Anna is the program director for the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University. She has a master's degree in social work from The Catholic University of America and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from St. John’s University. Anna leads the Initiative's Salt and Light Gatherings—which helps young adult Catholics explore links between faith, Catholic social thought, and their lives and work—and supports the Initiative's programs, finances, and fundraising. She previously served as the associate editor of Education for Justice, a project of the Center of Concern.
Anna Gordon
Program Director, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Georgetown University
Diana Marin
Young Adult Mobilization Program Manager, Catholic Climate Covenant
Diana serves as the Program Manager, Young Adult Mobilization at Catholic Climate Covenant. She earned a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and a Bachelor of Arts in Romance Languages and Literature from Harvard. Prior, Diana served as a Project Manager for the Dominican Charism Initiative, where she developed award-winning faith formation materials for the online educational platform of www.opcharism.org rooted in the history and spirituality of the Dominican Order. Previously, she served as theologian-in-residence for the Nuns and Nones Land Justice Project, convening Catholic Sisters and millennial “nones” in conversations on land transitions rooted in ecological and racial healing.
Diana Marin
Young Adult Mobilization Program Manager, Catholic Climate Covenant
Colin Martinez Longmore
Grassroots Outreach and Education Coordinator
Colin serves as the Communications and Social Media Coordinator at NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice in Washington D.C. He works to empower justice-seekers of all backgrounds to become effective faith-based advocates through NETWORK’s resources, content, and action opportunities.
Colin has served as the Advocacy Chair for the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice and has taught classes at Georgetown University’s Capitol Applied Learning Lab. Previously, he worked for seven years as a youth minister in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange leading bilingual faith formation programs, hosting retreats, and speaking at various Diocesan youth events.
Colin was born and raised Southern California and graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a degree in Communication Studies and Religious Studies.
Colin Martinez Longmore
Communications and Social Media Coordinator, NETWORK
Ashley Morris
Director of Black Catholic Affairs, Archdiocese of Atlanta
Ashley currently serves as the Director of the Black Catholic Affairs of the Office of Intercultural Ministries of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Mass Media Arts, Concentrating in Radio, TV, and Film from Clark Atlanta University and his Masters of Pastoral Theology from the Institute of Black Catholic Studies of Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans). Prior to this appointment in February 2023, he served as the Associate Director of the Office of Intercultural Ministries of the Archdiocese of Atlanta and as an Assistant Campus Minister of Lyke House: The Catholic Center at Atlanta University Center (AUC).
Ashley Morris
Director of Black Catholic Affairs, Archdiocese of Atlanta
Nicole Perone
National Coordinator, ESTEEM
Nicole M. Perone is the National Coordinator of ESTEEM, the faith-based leadership formation program for Catholic students at colleges and universities. ESTEEM prepares young adults for the transition from campus ministry to parish life, and to engage their temporal gifts as leaders in their faith communities.
Nicole is also the chair of the Board of Members for the National Institute for Ministry with Young Adults, and served on the writing team for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ pastoral framework on youth and young adult ministry. In 2018, Nicole was a delegate to the Pre-Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment, and served on the writing committee for the final document. Her work has been published by America Media, Catholic News Service, The Jesuit Post, and US Catholic.
She holds a Master of Divinity (M.Div) from Yale University; her Bachelor of Arts in Theology with double minors in Italian and Catholic Studies was bestowed by Loyola University Maryland, where she graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
Nicole lives in Milford, Connecticut with her husband, John Grosso (communications consultant, and digital media editor for the National Catholic Reporter); their daughter, Rosie; and their Golden Retriever, Ellie.
Nicole Perone
National Coordinator, ESTEEM
Kelli Reagan Hickey
Director of Formation, Franceso Collaborative
Kelli currently serves as the Director of Formation at the Francesco Collaborative. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale University and completed her graduate studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. Prior, Kelli spent several years at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, where she fell in love with Catholic Social Tradition and the way it inspires a faith that seeks justice.
Kelli Reagan Hickey
Director of Formation, Francesco Collaborative
Rob is responsible for strategic recruitment efforts at the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) as the Director of Recruitment. After graduating with a Bachelors’ of Arts in Philosophy from the Ateneo de Manila University, he went on to serve full-time with the Jesuit Volunteer Philippines as a Business Development Associate, developing an innovative, sustainable, and cooperative agribusiness model for rural farmers in Tacloban, Philippines. His experience with faith-based service, community building, and family ministries through Couples for Christ USA inspire him to continue building a fuller church, a most just community, and a hopeful world.
Rob Roa
Director of Recruitment, Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Rob Roa
Director of Recruitment, Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Nicholas Stein
International Director, Bon Secours Young Adults
Nicholas Stein is a founder and the International Director of Bon Secours Young Adults, a ministry of the Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours of Paris to people in their 20’s and 30’s. Since its founding in 2014 in Marriottsville, Maryland the ministry has reached hundreds of young adults across the United States, Ireland, England, France and Peru through retreats, programming, and relationship-building in order to deepen their Christian call to compassion, healing, and liberation.
Nick is also the founding chair of the board of directors of the National Institute for Ministry with Young Adults. He has served on several national and international initiatives in the field of ministry with young adults and has been a sought-after speaker and consultant in the field. Nick served as a Consultant to the USCCB Working Group on Youth and Young Adults. He was the founding chairperson of the former USCCB National Advisory Team on Young Adult Ministry and in that role helped to lead the efforts of the National Dialogue on Catholic Pastoral Ministry with Youth and Young Adults (www.nationaldialogue.info).
He lives in Catonsville, Maryland with his wife and 3 children. His family is active in the pastorate of Resurrection/St. Paul in Ellicott City, Maryland. He holds an MA in Theology from Boston College and a BA in Print Journalism/Political Science from the University of Southern California.
Nicholas Stein
International Director, Bon Secours Young Adults
Featured Topics
Session 1 — Keynote
Young Adults in a Synodal Church
Connecting the Synod on Young People in 2018 to the 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality currently underway, as an unprecedented moment in the Church to accompany, mentor, and form young adults for leadership, while creating a synodal Church where everyone can belong.
Session 2
Today’s Catholic Young Adults: Engaged. Diverse. Questioning. Caring. Passionate.
A look at where young adults are in relation to the Church and its leadership, how they live their spiritual lives, and the importance of speaking openly about mental health.
Session 3
The Church We Want to Be: An Authentic Place for All to Belong
Taking a deeper dive into belonging, trust, and how the Church can ensure the leadership tables of its parishes, communities, and ministries are spaces where all young adults truly belong.
Session 4
An Expanded Tent: Church Beyond the Parish Walls
Exploring the Church of today and lived faith of young adults, including the role of digital media and technology in forming and sustaining faith communities, and how parishes can adapt to meet young adults where they are.
Featured Speakers
KEYNOTE / SESSION 1: Young Adults in a Synodal Church
Sr. Nathalie Becquart, XMCJ
Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops
Nathalie Becquart is a 51-year-old French Catholic religious sister and member of the Congregation La Xavière. From 2008 to 2018 she led the National Service for the Evangelization of Youth and for Vocations (SNEJV) within the Bishops’ Conference of France. In May 2019, she was appointed Consultor for the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops. Nathalie Becquart was born in 1969 in Fontainebleau (France). She joined the Xavieres sisters in 1995 after a year of volunteer work in Lebanon and two years of professional experience as a Marketing-Communication consultant. She took her first vows in “La Xavière” in 1998 and her final vows in 2005.
Sr. Becquart graduated from HEC School of Management, Paris in 1992, with a master in Entrepreneurship, and she obtained a double canonical baccalaureate degree in philosophy and theology in 2006 from the “Centre Sèvres-Facultés Jésuites de Paris”, supplemented by training in sociology at the EHESS (2004-2006). She is just completing a canonical Licentiate in Theology at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (specialization in ecclesiology with a research on synodality).
She spent nearly 30 years in youth ministry and is a specialist in youth issues, youth evangelization and vocation ministry. She held various responsibilities in the service of youth and young adults. In 2012, she was the first woman to be appointed as the Director of the National Service for the Evangelization of Youth and for Vocations within the French Bishops’ Conference after being the Deputy Director of this service from 2008 to 2012 in charge of university pastoral care.
From 2015 to 2018, called by Bishop Michel Aupetit, she was a member of the Episcopal Council of the Diocese of Nanterre.
Her ten-year mission at the French Bishops’ Conference have led her to become involved at the European level - through the meetings of the CCEE (Council of European Bishops’ Conferences) and the European Vocations Service, of which she was vice-president from 2016 to 2018 - and at the international level (organization of WYD, participation in international meetings and congresses in Rome, etc.). She was particularly involved in the preparation of the Synod of Bishops on “Youth, Faith and Vocational Discernment” in France and at the Vatican as General Coordinator of the March 2018 Youth Pre-Synod and as an auditor at the October 2018 Youth Synod.
Sr. Nathalie Becquart, XMCJ
Undersecretary, Synod of Bishops
John Grosso
Digital Editor, National Catholic Reporter
John Grosso serves as the Digital Editor of the National Catholic Reporter, where he is responsible for developing and helping to implement social media and multimedia strategies for the National Catholic Reporter and EarthBeat. He is also a digital media consultant for religious institutions, non-profits, and small businesses. John is a Catholic speaker and author with a passion for digital media discernment and discipleship. He recently contributed a chapter to the book Building Your Digital Sanctuary: An Introductory Guide to Effective Digital Ministry.
Previously, John served as Associate Director of Communications for Fundraisers and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities, Inc (FADICA), and the Director of Digital Media for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport.
In 2021, John was involved in the Vatican Dicastery for Communication’s Faith Communication in the Digital World program and the Vatican’s Synod Office. He continues to work with the Dicastery for Communication on various digital media projects, including planning the next phase of the Faith Communication in the Digital World program.
John completed his bachelor’s degree at Boston College, and his master’s degree at Sacred Heart University. He resides in Connecticut with his wife Nicole, daughter Rose, and golden retriever, Ellie.
John Grosso
Digital Editor, National Catholic Reporter
SESSION 2: Today’s Catholic Young Adults: Engaged. Diverse. Questioning. Caring. Passionate.
Paul Jarzembowski
Associate Director for the Laity, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Paul Jarzembowski is the Associate Director for the Laity within the Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), where he has served since 2013. Paul manages the bishops’ efforts around laity and lay leadership in the Church, as well as youth and young adults. Prior to his time at the USCCB, Paul was Diocesan Director of Young Adult Ministry for the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois and Executive Director for the National Catholic Young Adult Ministry Association (NCYAMA), precursor to the National Institute for Ministry with Young Adults (NIMYA), for which he now serves on the board of directors. Paul is the author of two books: Hope from the Ashes: Insights and Resources for Welcoming Lenten Visitors (2022) and Hope for the Holidays: Finding Light at the Darkest Time of the Year (2023), both from Paulist Press, and has written and spoken extensively on the evangelization and pastoral care of youth and young adults and Pope Francis’ Christus Vivit. He has presented to and consulted with parishes, dioceses, religious communities, ministry conferences, and organizations around the world, including the Vatican Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, in particular on young people and World Youth Day. Originally from the Diocese of Gary, Paul has degrees in theology and marketing from Valparaiso University in Indiana and an advanced degree in pastoral studies from Loyola University Chicago. He and his wife Sarah live in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC.
Paul Jarzembowski
Associate Director for the Laity, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Claudia Avila Cosnahan
Mission & Partnerships Director, Commonweal; Contributing Author, Faith and Spiritual Life of Young Adult Catholics in a Rising Hispanic Church (Liturgical Press)
Claudia Avila Cosnahan is Commonweal Magazine’s Director of Mission and Partnerships and serves as a pastoral consultant and instructor in adult formation. She was educated at UCLA and Loyola Marymount University where she received a master’s degree in pastoral theology focusing on US Latinx theology, contextual theology, and spirituality. She has almost 14 years of ministry and leadership experience in Southern California serving in youth and young adult ministry, adult formation, spiritual formation, liturgical planning, pastoral planning, and pastoral councils. She has published articles and reflections in Liturgical Training Publications and Commonweal Magazine. More recently, Claudia has served on the coordinating and research committee for the National Conversation on Shared Parish Life and was a contributing writer in Faith and Spiritual Life of Young Adult Catholics in a Rising Hispanic Church, (Liturgical Press). Daughter of Mexican immigrants and originally from Fontana, CA, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
Claudia Avila
Mission & Partnerships Director, Commonweal; Contributing Author, Faith and Spiritual Life of Young Adult Catholics in a Rising Hispanic Church (Liturgical Press)
SESSION 3: The Church We Want to Be: An Authentic Place for All to Belong
Cecilia Flores
Executive Director, Catholic Volunteer Network
Cecilia, daughter of Leo and Marie, mother of Kiara and Jacob.
Cecilia is the daughter of Filipino immigrants who grew up in the San Francisco bay area. She has spent over 15 years working with communities of faith to address poverty and injustice in the US and in Central America through the formation and development of youth, young adults, and women. She holds an MA in Global Development & Social Justice from St. John’s University, while grounding herself in the cultural traditions and wisdom received from her elders and ancestors. She is passionate about the power of storytelling, building relationship, community organizing, facilitating opportunities for encounter, and helping others discover and develop their gifts in order to change the world. She currently works as the Executive Director of the Catholic Volunteer Network and is based in Sacramento, CA.
Cecilia Flores
Executive Director, Catholic Volunteer Network
Dr. Craig Ford
Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Saint Norbert College
Craig A. Ford, Jr., is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Saint Norbert College, where he teaches courses in Christian Ethics, in Ecclesiology, and in topics in Race, Gender and Sexuality while also serving as Co-Director for the Peace and Justice Interdisciplinary Minor. He is also on the faculty at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies—hosted at Xavier University of Louisiana, the nation’s only Catholic HBCU— where he teaches courses on Black Theology as well as on Topics in Moral Theology from a Black Perspective. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Yale Divinity School, and Boston College, Dr. Ford writes on topics at the intersection of queer theory, Black studies, and the Catholic moral tradition.
Considering himself a scholar-activist, Dr. Ford’s work bridges the academy and a wider popular audience, with publications in professional outlets like the Journal of Moral Theology and Horizons as well as in popular outlets like Commonweal Magazine and the National Catholic Reporter. Dr. Ford is also sought out as a workshop leader on issues of racial, sexual, and gender justice, working not only with Catholic parishes but with other colleges, universities, and professional bodies, including most notably with the Association of Catholic College and Universities (ACCU) as its 2022 inaugural speaker for its Consortium for Senior Diversity Officers in Catholic Higher Education.
Craig Ford
Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Saint Norbert College
Most Reverend Arturo Cepeda
Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit
Bishop Arturo Cepeda, STL, STD, is originally from San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., Mexico. He received his elementary and High School education in Catholic schools of San Luis Potosí under the direction of the Sisters and Brothers Josefinos. Later, he completed a year of spiritual formation, followed by studies in philosophy at the Archdiocesan Seminary Guadalupano Josefino. After moving with his family to San Antonio, Texas, Bishop Cepeda continued his seminary studies at Our Lady of the Lake University, and obtained a degree in Religious Studies with a specialty in Psychology from the College Seminary of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Returning to San Antonio’s Assumption Seminary he received the degree of Master in Divinity from Oblate School of Theology and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Patricio Flores on June 1, 1996. In 2001 after obtaining the degree of Master in Biblical Theology from the University of St. Mary’s and while he was assigned as parochial vicar in the San Fernando Cathedral, Bishop Cepeda travels to Rome to study at the Pontifical University "St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum,” where he successfully obtained a licentiate and doctorate degrees in Sacred Theology (STL, STD).
Returning to San Antonio in 2005, he fulfilled teaching and formation duties at Assumption Seminary and Oblate School of Theology. He served as Vocation Director and Faculty member of the Transitional Ministry Formation Program for newly ordained priests. He also served as formation faculty for the Center of Spiritual Direction “St. Peter upon the Water” in the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Bishop Cepeda was named Vice Rector of Assumption Seminary in 2009.
In 2010 he was installed as rector of the Seminary, where he served until his appointment as Titular Bishop of Tagase and Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit on May 5, 2011. He serves as vicar of Hispanic Ministry and Immigration for the Archdiocese of Detroit. In December 2012, Bishop Cepeda was appointed director of the Department of Evangelization, Catechesis and Schools for the Archdiocese of Detroit by Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron, a position he held until June 2017.
Bishop Cepeda currently serves as Chair of the Committee on Cultural Diversity in the Church and member of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, and Member of the Committee of Religious Liberty. He has served in the Committee on Catholic Education, Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations, Subcommittee on Certification for Ecclesial Ministry and Service, and the Subcommittee on Hispanic Affairs. He also serves as Episcopal Liaison for the Instituto Fe y Vida and the Federación de Institutos Pastorales (FIP).
On August 29, 2013, in the city of Las Vegas, NV, Bishop Arturo Cepeda summoned the leadership of all national Hispanic pastoral organizations to a preliminary conversation on the initiative of a V Encuentro. Bishop Cepeda said the meetings have been the backbone in the development of Hispanic / Latino ministry and have given us the opportunity to interpret and project our own identity, presence and contributions to the Church and society in the United States into the future. Bishops Arturo Cepeda, Gerald Barnes, and Archbishops Nelson Pérez and Gustavo García-Siller were elected by the Subcommittee on Hispanic
Affairs to more directly accompany the Encuentro process. Bishop Cepeda was the national vice-president of the V Encuentro held on 2018. In 2013 Bishop Cepeda was honored with the “American Bible Society Christian Leadership Award” which is presented to a Christian Church leader that exemplifies great leadership skills.
Most Reverend Arturo Cepeda
Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit
Tracey Lamont
Director, Loyola Institute for Ministry and Associate Professor, Religious Education and Young Adult Ministry, Loyola University New Orleans
Tracey Lamont is Director and Associate Professor of Religious Education and Young Adult Ministry at Loyola Institute for Ministry. She earned her doctorate in Religion and Religious Education from Fordham University. From 2017-2019, Tracey served as a committee member for the National Dialogue on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment, where she worked to develop a facilitation guide to help ministry leaders engage with and listen to young people. From 2017-2021, Tracey served as the Vice Chair of resources for the USCCB National Advisory Team on Young Adult Ministry. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the National Institute for Ministry with Young Adults and serves on the Board for the National Community of Catechetical Leaders. Tracey is also project director for the FIELD Project, a Lilly Endowment funded initiative to help parishes become more synodal so to better minister with young adults.
Tracey Lamont
Director, Loyola Institute for Ministry and Associate Professor, Religious Education and Young Adult Ministry, Loyola University New Orleans
SESSION 4: An Expanded Tent: Church Beyond the Parish Walls
Stephanie Peddicord
President, Center for FaithJustice
Coming soon!
Stephanie Peddicord
President, Center for FaithJustice
Anna Johnson
North America Senior Programs Manager, Laudato Si Movement
Anna Johnson is the North America Senior Programs Manager for the Laudato Si Movement, a Spirit-led movement that builds, inspires, and mobilizes a global community of Catholics to care for our common home and achieve climate and ecological justice, in collaboration with all people of good will. Prior to joining LSM, she worked for over a decade in Catholic Teaching curriculum design and leadership training, particularly with youth and young adults, including the collaborative development of the young adult designed Wholemakers curriculum. Witnessing and experiencing how the climate crisis exacerbates all injustice, both globally and locally, as well as a deep love for God's creation, drove her focus toward ecological justice. Anna has a BA in Peace Studies and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, and an Executive Masters in Sustainability Leadership from Arizona State University. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband, daughter, and dog, where they find time to go hiking in the mountains whenever they can.
Anna Johnson
North America Senior Program Manager, Laudato Si' Movement
Fr. Agustino Torres, CFR
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
Coming soon!
Fr. Agustino Torres, CFR
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
Schedule of Events
DAY 1 - FEBRUARY 28
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 3:00 PM | Registration |
| 5:00 PM | Welcome Reception |
| 7:00 PM | Live Podcast Recording |
DAY 2 - FEBRUARY 29
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 7:30 AM | Registration Opens |
| 8:30 AM | Mass |
| 9:30 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 10:00 AM | Welcome and Opening Roundtable |
| 10:45 AM | Session 1: Keynote |
| 2:00 PM | Session 2 |
| 6:00 PM | Cocktail Reception |
| 7:00 PM | Monan Medal Ceremony and Dinner |
DAY 3 - MARCH 1
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 7:30 AM | Special Catholic Schools Breakfast |
| 8:00 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 AM | Opening Prayer and Introduction |
| 9:15 AM | Session 3 |
| 1:15 PM | Session 4 |
| 4:15 PM | Summit Concludes |
Hotel and Travel Information
HOTEL
Summit attendee block rooms are available at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia located at 1700 Richmond Hwy, Arlington, VA 22202.
Parking is available on-site for an additional fee.
The deadline to book a room at this special rate is February 12, 2024.
Pastoral leaders and young adults, please select "government" rate. All other attendees, please select "attendee" rate.
For hotel questions, contact Susan Hernandez at 908-451-0725 or susanbeevents@gmail.com
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