Please note: Sessions are subject to change.

Session #1: 11/17, 9:55-10:45am

NETWORK- Mend The Gap!
Shannon Hughes
Did you know that the wealthiest 1% of our population owns more than 90% of us combined? A gap like this is bad for all of us – it keeps people in poverty, erodes the middle class, and results in a decline in numerous measures of our nation’s well-being. These negative effects have been born disproportionately by people and communities of color – in 1994, when comparing mothers with bachelor’s degrees (or higher), for every dollar of wealth owned by a white mother, a black mother owned 64 cents; by 2007, it had fallen to 13 cents! This session will offer an introduction to the gap in wealth and power that the people of the United States experience today, and examine our call to respect the inherent dignity of all our sisters and brothers by mending the gap! (Repeated during session 2)

Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest –  Intentional Living: Simple Steps for a Just and Sustainable World
Megan Bell and Ian Roeber
We will explore how making simple, intentional choices and “living simply” can bring about social and ecological change in our lives. This social and ecological change at personal and community levels can propel us into a just and sustainable world. We will share personal experiences of simple living as Jesuit Volunteers and create a discussion around solidarity and counter-cultural lifestyle choices as a means to social and ecological change. Join us as we create an interactive environment for attendees to take away tangible tools and creative ideas into the schools and communities in which they live.

Loyola High School of Los Angeles – Ignatian Brothers and Sisters – Los Angeles/Buenos Aires/Montevideo
Misael Cabrera and Jason Mijangos
Since 2009 Loyola of Los Angeles has exchanged students and faculty with some of the Jesuit colegios of Argentina (Del Salvador – Buenos Aires & Inmaculada – Santa Fe) and Uruguay (Seminario) for purposes of language, culture and service education. Each year In January and February, Loyola hosts visiting foreign students and then in June and July Loyola students hosted in urban and rural communities of Argentina and Uruguay. The presenters will share their life changing experiences that have called them beyond earlier self imagined cultural and language borders to a greater appreciation of differences and similarities as well as a celebration of the common Ignatian tradition and its varied expressions both north and south.
Attendees will be invited to consider establishing such partnerships with the Jesuit colegios and universities of South America, which are very interested in establishing exchange and immersion programs with Jesuit high schools and universities in the United States.

Catherine Brunell – Becoming Catholic, Again – Connecting the Faith We Were Taught with the Faith We Live

Mount St. Mary’s University –  The Predestination of Higher Education
Jeffrey Abel 
Education reform is currently a heavily debated topic. From the Head Start program to the Dream Act, the question we improve the quality and accessibility of education is often raised. Within this, the current practices of selective admissions at colleges and universities (and the college counseling practices in high schools) are rarely looked at as contributing factors to current social class inequality. In this session, we will discuss these current practices and trends as well as ares of reform needed to bring an end to the separate and unequal futures.

Catholic Worker Movement –  Living On The Land: Exploring Catholic Worker Farms
Eric Anglada and Brenna Anglada
The Catholic Worker movement is almost 80 years old. For that time, the poor have been fed, housed and treated as dignified.  Less well known, the movement has also harbored a love for the living more closely and sustainably with the land.  In the context of our environmental crisis, we’ll discuss various practices of “being green” as well as living a spiritually rooted and integrated life.

Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty – The Sanctity of All Life through the Lens of the Death Penalty
Karen Clifton and Vicki Schieber

Attendees will learn about our Catholic church’s teaching through a specific focus on the death penalty – a difficult stumbling block for many Catholics. This workshop is for Catholics interested in learning more about the death penalty, the Church’s teaching in the matter, practical and moral questions posed by the capital-punishment debate, and opportunities for involvement in repeal efforts. Attendees will learn about our Church’s call for restorative justice, helping to restore communities rather than using violence to solve problems.

STAND – Catholic Values, Human Rights: Preventing Mass Atrocities in a Changing World
Daniel Solomon and Mickey Jackson
Youth, particularly Catholic students, have played a consistently important role in pushing for political and social change around mass atrocities. Spurred by a historical legacy of Jesuit activism, Catholic students have contributed to the emergence, growth, and strengthening of a broad spectrum of human rights initiatives: on South African apartheid, in the Latin America justice movement, and in the Sudan advocacy community. During this session, we will discuss the continued role of faith-based communities in the global human rights movement, and how students can play a progressive role in building long-term, permanent constituencies for atrocities prevention. 

Jesuit Refugee Service/USA- Colombian Refugee Realities
Merlys Mosquera Chamat and Laura Gaspo
The hardships refugees and other forcibly displaced persons face are not theirs alone. Host communities and governments must act to assist and protect these refugees. Come to an interactive session focusing on the border community of Sucumbíos, Ecuador that currently hosts Colombian refugees. Join keynote speaker Merlys Mosquera Chamat of JRS-Latin America and Caribbean in learning how refugees, host communities, and governments must work together to cope with the Colombian refugee crisis. (Repeated during session 2)

L’Arche Greater Washington, DC - Discerning a Calling to L’Arche
Melissa Javier-Barry and Sarah Ruszkowski
L’Arche is a faith based community where people with and without intellectual disabilities choose to live together. Through mutually transforming relationships, all the members of the community, both those with and without intellectual disabilities, discover their gifts and talents, and discover their ability to grow beyond the limits society assumes for them.  During this session we will explore the process of discerning service in L’Arche, and will celebrate lessons learned through the joys and challenges of community living.

USCCB/Justice for Immigrants - We are one Family Under God: The Catholic Church and Immigration
Tony Cube
This session will review the U.S. and Mexican Catholic bishops’ pastoral statement Strangers No Longer, discuss the Church’s involvement in U.S. immigration policy, present on and answer questions about the U.S. Catholic bishops’ position on immigration, give an overview of the legislative and political landscape concerning immigration, and provide participants with information, tools and simple strategies they may use and share in order to advocate for immigration reform. Inspired by SNL and motivated by the Church’s tradition and teachings on migration, the Bishops have created public policy positions and worked with Catholic church-affiliated organizations “to truly welcome the stranger among us (Mt 25:35).”

Fairfield University – Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network “JUHAN” in Action:  Men and Women For Others
Julie Mughal, Nicole Davidow, Maria Clinton, Sharon Pedrosa
JUHAN is a collaboration of faculty, staff and students at Jesuit universities both domestic and international.  JUHAN was created in 2006 to leverage the network of Jesuit universities, integrate a network approach to humanitarian studies, and increase the effectiveness of the members’ collaborative efforts in response to humanitarian crises in the U.S. and throughout the world.

Equal Exchange/CRS Fair Trade- Small Farmer Co-op, Equal Exchange, CRS and Fair Trade
Peter Buck
Fair Trade begins in poor communities around the world, where small farmers and artisans struggle against natural, political and economic obstacles to make a living. Using the example of one co-op in El Salvador, we will review the formation of co-operatives—frequently with the help of the church—where small producers pool their resources to obtain land and education, process and market their crops, develop their communities and secure economic and political power. The Fair Trade movement in the global north started as a solidarity response—again led by churches—to provide market access, technical assistance and solidarity. In the United States, well over ten thousand faith communities participate in Fair Trade by buying, serving, selling and promoting an expanding list of fairly traded foods and handicrafts. Students will learn from two of the principal actors in Fair Trade in the U.S., Equal Exchange and the CRS Fair Trade program how they can involve their parishes and schools in the movement.

Regis University – Romero House: Living Ignatian Spirituality in Community
Becky Camacho-Frank
Romero House is a Regis University student residence that allows undergraduate students to explore issues of faith and justice.    As young Catholics, we have a call to live our faith by engaging in the world around us.  During this session, students will share how the Romero House Pillars – Community, Service, Social Justice, Solidarity, and Simplicity – have allowed them to truly live what they believe to be the Jesuit mission: Becoming Men & Women With and For Others.  Join us to learn more about how an intentional community can help you to live out your Ignatian Spirituality.

Conference of Major Superiors of Men – Nonviolent Peaceforce: Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Eli McCarthy and David Grant
As Christians, Jesus clearly calls us to be peacemakers, love our enemies, and be ambassadors of reconciliation. But how do we embody this in situations of acute conflict, major human rights abuses, and mass atrocities in 2012? For the last  10 years, the Nonviolent Peaceforce has been experimenting with the power of unarmed civilian peacekeeping that illuminates the dignity of all people involved in acute conflict. They practice proactive presence, protective accompaniment, monitoring, inter-positioning, etc. They have deployed teams to Sri Lanka, Philippines, and Sudan. They have had some major breakthroughs in these countries, with the UN, and slowly with the US Government. What is God calling you to as a form of peacemaking that “loves our enemies?”

Creighton University – Witnesses for justice: Student film-making in Uganda
Hannah O’Keefe and Carol Zuegner
During this session we will show our award-winning student made documentary “Mato Oput: Justice and Reconciliation.”  We will also talk about the experience of traveling and filming in Northern Uganda as it emerges from years of civil war.

Interfaith Worker Justice – Solidarity with Hotel Workers: Addressing Domestic Economic Inequalities
Sung Yeon Morrow-Choi
In this workshop you will hear from Hyatt Hotel workers about their working conditions. They will share about what they are doing about it and how you can participate. (Repeated during session 2)

Gabriel Bol Deng-  Moving Mountains: One man’s journey of building Ariang school one brick at a time in war-torn South Sudan
During this breakout, IFTJ keynote speaker Gabriel Bol Deng will share about his personal struggle and journey to bring education to his village of Ariang in South Sudan. He will share the lessons he learned along the way and inspire you to “move your own mountains” and be a catalyst of social change on your campus and community. There will be a time for questions and answers as well as viewing short film that chronicles his work his Ariang in South Sudan. (Repeated during session 2)

There’s Something About Appalachia…
Tom Weinandy – Appalachian Institute
As Appalachian author, Jeff Biggers, wrote, “You can’t understand America until you understand Appalachia.” This session seeks to engage immersion leaders and participants who plan on going to Appalachia during an alternative break experience.  The Appalachian Institute works with over 20 schools a year interested in learning about the culture and issues facing Appalachia. Direct service and experiential learning trips are regarded as one of the best ways to educate students on the realities of the world around them. We believe that through educated trip planning and preparation, genuine connections with the communities students are serving with, intentional educational and cultural experiences, reflections based on Catholic Social Teaching and the Examen, and a Call to Action at the end of the week, immersion groups will go home ready to engage their campus through awareness and advocacy initiatives geared toward supporting Appalachia.

Promoting Sustainability on Your Campus
Casey McCullough – Episcopal High School
Students have far more power to implement positive environmental change on their campuses than they realize. In this session, the presenter will share his experience promoting sustainability at the high school and university level.  Then he will lead a discussion in which participants share success stories and challenges that they have encountered promoting environmental initiatives on their respective campuses.

National Jesuit Committee on Investment Responsibility - Shareholder Engagement as Part of the Activist Toolkit
Anna Bradley
This will be a fun and fast-paced session. Using the Hyatt Corporation labor issues as context, this session will involve attendees in role-play exercises to explore how stock ownership provides effective ways to advocate and influence corporate behavior for the common good.  Come discover how shareholder advocacy can provide a place at the table for the vulnerable and marginalized who would not otherwise have access to corporate decision makers. Attendees are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the issues by reading “Information Regarding Hyatt Regency Boycott” on the ISN website.

National Religious Campaign Against Torture – Promoting Human Rights
T.C. Morrow 
What would it look like if the U.S. abided by the golden rule principle while interrogating and confining detainees and prisoners?  Would we use waterboarding?  Would we hold prisoners in long-term solitary confinement, knowing it can lead to hallucinations, paranoia, and increased rates of self-mutilation and suicide?  This session will explore how you can make a difference in promoting human rights and working for an end to torture in U.S. policy, practice and culture.

Session #2: 11/17, 11:00-11:50am

Maryknoll Lay Missioners- Imagine: Serving Overseas As a Missioner with Maryknoll!
Dr. Mary Ann Cejka, Deacon Steven DeMartino, Janet Hockman
For missioners, the margins are not marginal – they’re where it’s at! Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers and Maryknoll Lay Missioners move to the heart of the Gospel message by serving some of the world’s poorest and most marginalized people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Let your heart be stirred and your imagination inspired by coming to explore whether yours is a calling to make a difference by serving in overseas mission!

Hear experiences of encountering Christ in mission, and share your faith & dreams with others with similar interests. With mission stories, opportunities for conversation, and a Q & A session, participants will learn about our ministries and where we serve, and receive practical information about serving as a missioner and the admissions process.

Fairfield University –  Cura Personalis and Immigration: Care for the Entire Person and for All the People
Melissa Quan, Richard Ryscavage, SJ, Kurt Schlicting, Ana Marie Siscar, and Terry Jones
After spending over two years studying the situation of undocumented students across the 28 American Jesuit colleges and universities, members of our team made up of specialists in sociology, law, and higher education will discuss the challenges, political ramifications, and moral demands of exploring immigration issues in our network of schools, as well as how elements of this topic connect with working for social justice in the 21st century.  We will offer both a general overview of some of the problems and potential solutions involved, and a more specific discussion on how best to become involved in advocating for change in policy and battling the spread of misinformation.  The conversation will hopefully include not only administrators and faculty, but also students who care deeply about the issue.

Workers Rights Consortium- Labor Rights and University Apparel
Theresa Haas
The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is an independent labor rights monitoring organization that seeks to protect and defend the rights of workers producing collegiate logo apparel. Currently, more than 180 universities and high schools in the US, Canada, and the UK are members of the organization, including several Jesuit institutions. The WRC is also responsible for monitoring conditions at the Alta Gracia Apparel factory in the Dominican Republic, the first ever living wage, unionized apparel factory in the Global South.

Kino Border Initiative- The Face of the Migrant
Pete Neely, SJ
We need to see the people behind the statistics. A first hand look at the people who are deported and hear their stories fresh from their experience of crossing the desert and then being apprehended and deported.  The students and staff will have the opportunity to listen and see the hands on work of the KBI and learn how they can participate directly with the Initiative through the Kino Teens program. (Repeated during session 3)

Pax Christi USA-  Daring to Dream
Anne-Louise Nadeau
To Move Beyond the Margins is risky business. It means seeing with new eyes, listening with new ears, in short it invites us to transformation…an equally risky endeavor.

We have all been educated that giving is a good thing, but is that enough? This workshop will present the 4 Pax Christi USA initiatives as a process to accompany people who are demanding rights that as human beings they are entitled to.

Loyola High School of Los Angeles – Kenya: More than Just Safaris
Kyle Paris
After a multiweek journey to kenya, I saw radiant rays of hope in an impoverished land shrouded in darkness through the indigenous people. Their open arms welcoming us into their shack homes appeared as an oasis in an area torn by violence and crime. The village elders offered multiple insightful opinions which allowed me to grasp both sides of many complex issues which include the huge trash mounds piled on the side of the road and the wealth distribution which leaves over 90% with less than a dollar a day to live on.

Catholic Coalition on Climate Change – Climate Change: The Church’s Response Today
Bishop Bernard Unabali and Dan Misleh
Bishop Bernard Unabali of Papua New Guinea will share stories of how climate change is already impacting people in his region of the world. He will describe how his diocese is helping to relocate several families from the Carteret Islands, people considered to be the world’s first climate refugees.

Co-presenting will be Dan Misleh, director of the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change. Dan will outline specific tools, projects and programs students can use to respond, in faith, to climate change.

Campaign For Fair Sentencing of Youth – Bringing Youth Back from the Margins: Reforming Life without Parol
Emily Dillon
The United States is the only country in the world that sentences children to life without parole. These children will never have the possibility for review and will die in prison. They are no longer on the margins of society, but removed and forgotten. Dramatic reform of the way that our culture imagines and structures the criminal justice system will allow us to sentence youth more fairly. During this session, we will show how respect for human rights and dignity compels participants to advocate for an end to life without parole for youth.

Collaborative Initiative to End Human Trafficking- Human Trafficking-Modern Day Slavery
Sr. Anne Victory, H.M and Sr. Cecilia Liberatore, S.N.D.
Human trafficking–for labor or commercial sex–is the second largest criminal activity in the world and is the fastest growing! People are being bought and sold, are being held against their will. It’s a hidden crime that happens across the world AND in our local neighborhoods. Victims can be vulnerable women, children and men, foreign-born or US citizens. This crime assaults the dignity of the human person and the dignity of work–both principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Restoring victims to wholeness and working to prevent this crime requires action on the part of all of us–no one can do it alone! (Repeated in session 3)

Food and Water Watch – “What the frack?”
Ken Homan and Sarah Alexander
How do we keep our world beautiful and protect our natural resources? How do we fight for a clean energy future? This session will introduce hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking” and the danger it poses. We will integrate Catholic Social Teaching and Jesuit Spirituality to dream of the best future we can. Come imagine beyond the margins!

Enough Project Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program- Supporting Education for and Building Connections with Darfuri Refugees
Meghan Higginbotham
Despite nearly a decade of displacement and failed peace negotiations, Darfuri refugees living in camps in eastern Chad are still hopeful of a future when they can return home and rebuild Darfur and they strongly believe that education is an essential tool for ensuring that future. This session will provide an overview of the Darfur conflict and life in the refugee camps, and will focus on Education as a Solution to future development and sustainable peace in Darfur. Attendees will also learn how they can participate directly through the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program (DDT), which has more than 300 participating U.S. schools connecting with and supporting the education of their Darfuri peers.

University of San Francisco – Love in Action: Conversations with Sisters
Emily Czarnick-Neimeyer, Lucas Waldron, Lauryn Gregorio, Evan Vaughan
Around the globe, “women for others” have been working for the rights of others, and we call these women religious Sisters. These women have committed to lives of service, simplicity, and faith and spend countless hours working in the areas of, for instance, education, domestic violence, women’s rights, faith development, and homelessness. Sister Helen Prejean and Mother Teresa are two well-known Sisters to be named, women who have shaken the comfort levels and understandings of what it means to live simply and radically for others. The voices of Sisters must be heard and highlighted, and the USF community is fortunate to have many direct connections with a number of local Orders of Sisters. In turn, three students and one Resident Minister from the University of San Francisco come together to highlight and support the work of religious Sisters living in the Bay Area of California, resulting in the short film, “Love in Action.” In the words of Mother Teresa, “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.” Each Sister in the film lives a life of “love in action” through local and global justice ministries, moving beyond a number of margins.

Mount Saint Mary’s University – Leadership Beyond Boundaries: Integrating student leadership development into service and justice programs
Jeffrey Abel and Jack Nash
Across the country, students from kindergarten to college are very engaged in service and justice experiences.  While there are many positive learning outcomes for student participants, as educators, we can challenge them to take the next step as trained facilitators.  In this session, we will present the model used by Mount St. Mary’s University to entegrate student leadership development into our service and justice program, and discuss beneficial outcomes for participants, student facilitators, and community partners.

Center of Concern - Climate Change and the Common Good
Liz Haney and Theresa Polk
Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, many in the United States believe that climate change is up for debate and that “green” jobs and technology waste money and hamper our economic growth. As people of faith, we have a different vocabulary and a different standard that compels us to address climate change. In this session we’ll give you talking points and a vision of hope to go home with that can give you a unique focus in debates about climate denial, responses to climate change and corporate power.

USCCB - Combating Domestic Poverty and Creating an Economy for All
Tom Mulloy
Poverty in America remains at a historical high, as millions of families struggle to find decent work and live in dignity. Persistently high unemployment and underemployment means there just aren’t enough jobs for all who want to work. Catholic teaching states that everyone and every institution–individuals and families, churches and community groups, businesses and the private sector, and governments–has an obligation to protect human life and dignity and advance the common good. This session will explore our current broken economy through the lens of our faith. Participants will learn about what is being done to help people living in poverty, and discuss ideas for economic renewal in their own communities. (Repeated in session 3)

Latin American Working Group –  Colombia and Mexico: Standing with the Victims of Violence
Omar Martinez and Lisa Haugaard
People of faith in Colombia and Mexico are calling for new approaches to the violence that afflicts their nations. In Colombia, the start of peace negotiations offers a new avenue for hope. In Mexico, a new movement of victims of violence is leading a call for change. How can we in the United States help support these signs of hope?

Jesuit Social Research Institute – Spirituality for the FaithJustice Journey
Fr. Fred Kammer, SJ
What virtues sustain those who work for people in need every day of their lives? How do they connect their work with their faith in ways that are life-giving? This workshop is based in the reflections of people who work for the poor and vulnerable across the country in Catholic Charities agencies, describing their own spirituality and how it enlivens them.

The Path of Most Resistance: Why the Particular Work of Fr. Roy Bourgeois and Fr. Daniel Berrigan Should Matter to Jesuit Educated Students
Anna Brown, Ph.D. – St. Peter’s University
For most of their lives, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, founder of the SOA Watch, and Fr. Daniel Berrigan, poet and peace activist, have given themselves fully to peacemaking and to resisting militarism. What do their lives of resistance have to say to those of us who work and study within Jesuit institutions of higher learning? This workshop focuses upon the projects of resistance and nonviolence started by Bourgeois and Berrigan, such as the SOA Watch, the Catonsville Nine, the Plowshares Eight. It will ask participants to imagine what their own acts of nonviolent resistance and peacemaking might be. The workshop closes with a brief period of meditation so that we might experience “peace” right here, right now.

Interfaith Worker Justice – Solidarity with Hotel Workers: Addressing Domestic Economic Inequalities
Sung Yeon Morrow-Choi
In this workshop you will hear from Hyatt Hotel workers about their working conditions. They will share about what they are doing about it and how you can participate. (Repeated from Session 1)

Gabriel Bol Deng-  Moving Mountains: One man’s journey of building Ariang school one brick at a time in war-torn South Sudan
During this breakout, IFTJ keynote speaker Gabriel Bol Deng will share about his personal struggle and journey to bring education to his village of Ariang in South Sudan. He will share the lessons he learned along the way and inspire you to “move your own mountains” and be a catalyst of social change on your campus and community. There will be a time for questions and answers as well as viewing short film that chronicles his work his Ariang in South Sudan. (Repeated from Session 1)

Jesuit Refugee Service/USA- Colombian Refugee Realities
Merlys Mosquera Chamat and Laura Gaspo
The hardships refugees and other forcibly displaced persons face are not theirs alone. Host communities and governments must act to assist and protect these refugees. Come to an interactive session focusing on the border community of Sucumbíos, Ecuador that currently hosts Colombian refugees. Join keynote speaker Merlys Mosquera Chamat of JRS-Latin America and Caribbean in learning how refugees, host communities, and governments must work together to cope with the Colombian refugee crisis. (Repeated from Session 1)

NETWORK- Mend The Gap!
Shannon Hughes
Did you know that the wealthiest 1% of our population owns more than 90% of us combined? A gap like this is bad for all of us – it keeps people in poverty, erodes the middle class, and results in a decline in numerous measures of our nation’s well-being. These negative effects have been born disproportionately by people and communities of color – in 1994, when comparing mothers with bachelor’s degrees (or higher), for every dollar of wealth owned by a white mother, a black mother owned 64 cents; by 2007, it had fallen to 13 cents! This session will offer an introduction to the gap in wealth and power that the people of the United States experience today, and examine our call to respect the inherent dignity of all our sisters and brothers by mending the gap! (Repeated from Session 1)

Session #3: 11/17, 1:30-2:20pm

US Department of State – US Foreign Policy in Africa
Matthew Walsh

I will provide a brief overview of U.S. foreign policy in general and then specifically in Africa. This will cover defense, diplomacy, and development topics. I will then use African case studies and personal anecdotes to discuss the intersection of human rights and foreign policy decision making. I will close by relating this to participants’ career/advocacy choices, including highlighting different ways you can influence foreign policy decision making.

Peter Rogers – Firing Up Your Imagination to Create a New World, A New You!
We often think of “Imagination” as fun time that has nothing to do with reality. In fact, Ignatian Spirituality uses the imagination in amazing ways to cultivate and prepare people to seek out, and “do” justice. In this session Pete Rogers will use stories, humor, and spiritual wisdom to help participants unlock their own imagination for jusice. Participants will be invited to imagine their own possibilites for justice making, while exploring how they might best use their gifts and talents to partner with people who are imagining a new way of living in their communities.

Rockhurst University – Carbon Offsets 101
Bill Kriege 
In decree 3 of the Society of Jesus’ General Congregation 35, it is stated, “we should invite all people to appreciate more deeply our covenant with creation as central to right relationships with God and one another, and to act accordingly in terms of political responsibility, employment, family life, and personal lifestyle.” In this breakout, we will examine one element of our lifestyle – travel – and how carbon offsets can help to begin to restore right relationship with Earth. Participants will be invited to re-examine their relationship to Earth through the lens of GC35, will be given tools they can use to measure the environmental impact of their travel, and will be encouraged to think, pray, and discuss how they feel called to act.

Fairfield University- Advocating for Worker Rights at Your University
Daniel Jones, Clare McElaney, and Melissa Hannequin 
This session explores our direct connection as consumers to the producers of our collegiate apparel. Our lives are situated within the greater global context of market forces, and as participants in a Jesuit education, we ought to critically engage ourselves within that particular context. As global citizens and consumers, we can change the way our society understands its direct role in the institutions surrounding production and labor. Ultimately, our united activism on campus can and must be translated into international action.

Boston College School of Theology and Ministry – Immigration in the US: Catholic Responsibility in Action
Cesar Boc and Rocío Sánchez Ares
The influx of immigrants in the US calls special attention to a Catholic response to a broken and unjust world. What can we do? As young Catholics, we have the opportunity and a calling to participate in creating a world according to a liberating Christian vision. By serving immigrant communities, we can become visionaries and makers of Jesus’ message of love of neighbor, especially the most vulnerable among us. In this session you will learn to develop tools using theater production as a strategy to organize your school and your community around issues of immigration in order to create a more just society.

Loyola High School of Los Angeles – Songs of Social Justice
Tom Cendejas 
Music has always played a key role in helping us to dream and imagine a more just world. During this session, we will go beyond familiar anthems to discover a wide array of songs on a variety of specific social justice themes. Imaginative ways to use these songs to educate as well as inspire and sustain activism will be offered as well as opportunities for reflection and creative expression.

JSEA – Ignacianos Por Haiti
Bill Hobbs
The Jesuit Secondary Education Association has partnered with the Jesuit high schools of Latin America to rebuild and support the Fe y Alegria Schools in Haiti.  Following the earthquake of of January 2010, the infrastructure of the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation was devasted.  Fe y Alregria is a Jesuit sponsored network of schools educating 1.5 million students around the world.  These schools are located “where the road ends” and serve the poorest of the poor.   This session will show the great need  as well as  hope for education in Haiti as well as discuss ways students and schools can become involved in the project.

Jesuit Social Research Institute – Challenges facing the future of Catholic Social Thought
Fr. Fred Kammer, SJ
“Catholic Social Thought is an evolving part of our faith tradition, changing and growing to meet social, economic, political, cultural, and religious changes in the world around us. This workshop will describe some of the challenges now facing the tradition, drawing from parts of the tradition to indicate lines of development for participants to consider.”

Equal Exhange/CRS Fair Trade – Fair Trade In Your Room
Peter Buck and Courtney Lare
You want a Keurig Brewer? Really? You WANT to spend $20 a pound for coffee? You WANT to use more plastic and aluminum than coffee for each cup you prepare? Well, no, but a Mr Coffee is messy and brews more than I want first thing in the morning or during exam week. Let Equal Exchange and CRS staff show you several easy and MUCH cheaper ways to brew better single cup coffee in your room, using a few simple pieces of equipment.

Center for Justice and Accountability – Update: Ending Impunity for the 1989 Jesuit Massacre
Patty Blum
The session will focus on the history and current status of legal efforts to bring to justice the high level commanders who planned and ordered the assassination of the martyred Jesuit priests in 1989 in El Salvador.  The session will explain cases now pending against one of the commanders in the U.S. as well as the indictments issued by the Spanish National Court.  The session will provide ample opportunities to address any questions the participants may have.

Loyola High School of Los Angeles – The Sum is Greater than the Whole of the Parts: Imagining a Very Different Future Through Tutoring in English and Mathematics
Gustavo Alza and Tom Zeko
In October 2001, Loyola High School of Los Angeles launched a high school placement test preparation program at the instigation of grade school principals, with help of Loyola parents and alumni, then staffed by Loyola 9th and 10th graders and aided by students and alumni of Loyola Marymount University and Santa Clara University. Over 6,000 8th grade students from 50 Catholic and public grade schools have learned more than English, mathematics and interview skills. Here the story of the program that the former superintendent of schools said would not work, but it did. This program has served as a model for three other test preparation programs in under served neighborhoods of metro Los Angeles and a parish in Detroit. Si, se puede!

Brophy Prep – Acting on the DREAM: Solidarity with our Neighbors, Friends, and Families
Tim Broyles, Isaac Nieblas, Charlie Sturr, and Kieran Martin
On June 15, 2012, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced that certain people who came to the United States as children and meet several key guidelines may request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal, and would then be eligible for work authorization. As a response to this action, Brophy has responded by reaching out to the immigrant community of Phoenix to help them through the difficult and confusing process of applying for deferred status.   This session is designed to help other schools put on an event like our DACA event. We will cover the process, things that we did, how it all went, and what we learned.

Eco-Prep – Protection of our Environment at Home
Khalil Johnson
ECO-PREP’s information session will entail information in regard to keeping your domestic environment purged of grime, filth, and garbage. Sometimes when we advocate for other country’s needs we forget about our own. ECO-PREP’S mission is specifically aimed at the local environment in which it resides. Our current projects are refurbishing a local playground that has been destroyed by the neighborhood, educating the community on how and why they should keep their encirclement clean, building a neighborhood greenhouse, riding the neighborhood lots of garbage, and tearing down life threatening building formations.

Loyola University of Maryland Center for Community Service and Justice – Just Language: More than Politically Correct
Matt DiFerdinando
Language, when employed in productive and positive ways, is one of the most powerful tools that each of us has to create more diverse and inclusive communities.  As socially conscious and active citizens, it is our responsibility to model this language for our peers in order to allow them to use this tool.  During this session the concept of just language will be explained in detail, as well as the difference between just language and political correctness, which many would view as being “just”.  This session aims to show ways in which anyone can take this very basic, yet incredibly important, form of activism back to their community.

Seattle Preparatory School – Creating Sweatshop-free Apparel Purchasing Policy
Andrew Hermann, Riley Mang, and David Lester
The anti-sweatshop movement has gained impressive attention at Jesuit institutions over the last few years. By attending this session you can show your school that you care about where your clothes are made. Come and learn the tools and skills needed to implement a sweatshop-free apparel purchasing policy at your school. The presenters will share their successful implementation of a sweatshop-free policy at their high school, Seattle Prep.

Casa Educational Network – Casa de la Solidaridad & Casa Bayanihan
Betsy Purner
This session will be geared toward college students interested in studying abroad in El Salvador, Argentina, or in the Phillippines. The Casa Educational Network’s unique educational pedagogy is rooted in a model of accompaniment education that immerses students into the “nitty-gritty reality” of this world. The Casa’s pillars-academics, accompaniment, community and spirituality-provide the immersion experience in a supportive living-learning community.

Catholic Mobilizing Network and Students/Alumni of Georgetown University – Dead Man Walking (One-Act Play presented as Staged Readings)
Will Cooke
Join students from Georgetown University, and director Will Cooke, as they present a version of Catholic Moblizing Network’s one-act play, Dead Man Walking.This short play is a great resource for church communities interested in joining the growing number of people of faith who are exploring the religious, moral and ethical dimensions of capital punishment in the United States.

Catholic Coalition on Climate Change – Climate Change: The Church’s Response Today
Bishop Bernard Unabali and Dan Misleh
Bishop Bernard Unabali of Papua New Guinea will share stories of how climate change is already impacting people in his region of the world. He will describe how his diocese is helping to relocate several families from the Carteret Islands, people considered to be the world’s first climate refugees. (Repeated from Session 2)

USCCB - Combating Domestic Poverty and Creating an Economy for All
Tom Mulloy
Poverty in America remains at a historical high, as millions of families struggle to find decent work and live in dignity. Persistently high unemployment and underemployment means there just aren’t enough jobs for all who want to work. Catholic teaching states that everyone and every institution–individuals and families, churches and community groups, businesses and the private sector, and governments–has an obligation to protect human life and dignity and advance the common good. This session will explore our current broken economy through the lens of our faith. Participants will learn about what is being done to help people living in poverty, and discuss ideas for economic renewal in their own communities. (Repeated from session 2)

Collaborative Initiative to End Human Trafficking – Human Trafficking-Modern Day Slavery
Sr. Anne Victory, H.M and Sr. Cecilia Liberatore, S.N.D.
Human trafficking–for labor or commercial sex–is the second largest criminal activity in the world and is the fastest growing! People are being bought and sold, are being held against their will. It’s a hidden crime that happens across the world AND in our local neighborhoods. Victims can be vulnerable women, children and men, foreign-born or US citizens. This crime assaults the dignity of the human person and the dignity of work–both principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Restoring victims to wholeness and working to prevent this crime requires action on the part of all of us–no one can do it alone! (Repeated from session 2)