Event Title
“Giving and Not Counting the Cost: The Jesuits and Social Justice” Jesuit Plenary
Location
BCC Oak Room
Start Date
13-6-2012 9:15 AM
End Date
13-6-2012 10:15 AM
Description
Moderator: Brendan Cahill, Executive Director of the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) and its partner organization, the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC), Fordham University.
Participants:
Mitzi Schroeder, Director for Policy, Jesuit Refugee Service/USA
David Hollenbach, S.J., University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice,
Boston College
Chris Lowney, President, Jesuit Commons
Kenneth Gavin, S.J., Assistant International Director, Jesuit Refugee Service, Rome
Chris Kerr, Executive Director, Ignatian Solidarity Network
Mitzi Shroeder has served in her current position for the 8.5 years. She chairs the Refugee Council USA Protection Committee, and Asia Working Group, and Co-Chairs the Interaction Humanitarian Partnership Work Group of InterAction, and served as a member of the US Government delegation of the UNHCR Executive Committee Meetings in 2011. She previously served as the director of the International Catholic Migration Commission’s US office and was responsible for ICMC’s US government funded programs. Mitzi received her bachelor’s degree from Williams College and her Master’s and Master of Law and Diplomacy Degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
David Hollenbach, S.J. holds the University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice and is Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College, where he teaches theological ethics and Christian social ethics. He recently published Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants and The Global Face of Public Faith. He has regularly been visiting professor at Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya. He assisted the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in drafting their pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy.
Chris Lowney, formerly a Jesuit seminarian, later served as a Managing Director of JP Morgan & Co in New York, Tokyo, Singapore, and London, before leaving the firm in 2001. He is author of Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company that Changed the World, which has been translated into ten languages. He has served part-time as volunteer president of the Jesuit Commons; he also serves on the board of CHI, one of the nation's largest healthcare systems, with seventy plus hospitals across the United States.
Kenneth Gavin, S.J., entered the New York Province of the Society of Jesus in 1962 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1975. After receiving a Ph.D. in communicative disorders at Northwestern University in 1981, he taught in Marquette University’s department of speech pathology and audiology for nine years, serving as departmental chair there for several years. In 1992, he began a four-year term as the president of Regis High School in New York City and then served for six years as the provincial of the New York Province of the Jesuits. In 2003 he was appointed as US national director of Jesuit Refugee Service/USA in Washington, DC for seven years. He has been serving as assistant international director of Jesuit Refugees Service in Rome since 2011 where his responsibilities include oversight of the international aspects of human resources, advocacy and communications.
Christopher G. Kerr joined the Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) as executive director in July 2011. Prior to coming to ISN he served as the coordinator for social justice and immersion experience programs and co-director of the Arrupe Scholars Program for Social Action at John Carroll University (JCU), beginning in 2005. Chris began his career in Catholic education as a teacher and administrator at the elementary and secondary levels. For a number of years he worked in paid and volunteer positions with the InterReligious Task Force on Central America, directing youth outreach and legislative advocacy initiatives. This work has included the development and leadership of the Ohio Fair Trade Network, a statewide coalition to promote socially and environmentally conscious consumerism. He received a B.A. in elementary education and M.A. in education administration from John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.
“Giving and Not Counting the Cost: The Jesuits and Social Justice” Jesuit Plenary
BCC Oak Room
Moderator: Brendan Cahill, Executive Director of the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) and its partner organization, the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC), Fordham University.
Participants:
Mitzi Schroeder, Director for Policy, Jesuit Refugee Service/USA
David Hollenbach, S.J., University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice,
Boston College
Chris Lowney, President, Jesuit Commons
Kenneth Gavin, S.J., Assistant International Director, Jesuit Refugee Service, Rome
Chris Kerr, Executive Director, Ignatian Solidarity Network
Mitzi Shroeder has served in her current position for the 8.5 years. She chairs the Refugee Council USA Protection Committee, and Asia Working Group, and Co-Chairs the Interaction Humanitarian Partnership Work Group of InterAction, and served as a member of the US Government delegation of the UNHCR Executive Committee Meetings in 2011. She previously served as the director of the International Catholic Migration Commission’s US office and was responsible for ICMC’s US government funded programs. Mitzi received her bachelor’s degree from Williams College and her Master’s and Master of Law and Diplomacy Degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
David Hollenbach, S.J. holds the University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice and is Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College, where he teaches theological ethics and Christian social ethics. He recently published Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants and The Global Face of Public Faith. He has regularly been visiting professor at Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya. He assisted the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in drafting their pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy.
Chris Lowney, formerly a Jesuit seminarian, later served as a Managing Director of JP Morgan & Co in New York, Tokyo, Singapore, and London, before leaving the firm in 2001. He is author of Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company that Changed the World, which has been translated into ten languages. He has served part-time as volunteer president of the Jesuit Commons; he also serves on the board of CHI, one of the nation's largest healthcare systems, with seventy plus hospitals across the United States.
Kenneth Gavin, S.J., entered the New York Province of the Society of Jesus in 1962 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1975. After receiving a Ph.D. in communicative disorders at Northwestern University in 1981, he taught in Marquette University’s department of speech pathology and audiology for nine years, serving as departmental chair there for several years. In 1992, he began a four-year term as the president of Regis High School in New York City and then served for six years as the provincial of the New York Province of the Jesuits. In 2003 he was appointed as US national director of Jesuit Refugee Service/USA in Washington, DC for seven years. He has been serving as assistant international director of Jesuit Refugees Service in Rome since 2011 where his responsibilities include oversight of the international aspects of human resources, advocacy and communications.
Christopher G. Kerr joined the Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) as executive director in July 2011. Prior to coming to ISN he served as the coordinator for social justice and immersion experience programs and co-director of the Arrupe Scholars Program for Social Action at John Carroll University (JCU), beginning in 2005. Chris began his career in Catholic education as a teacher and administrator at the elementary and secondary levels. For a number of years he worked in paid and volunteer positions with the InterReligious Task Force on Central America, directing youth outreach and legislative advocacy initiatives. This work has included the development and leadership of the Ohio Fair Trade Network, a statewide coalition to promote socially and environmentally conscious consumerism. He received a B.A. in elementary education and M.A. in education administration from John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.