How Can Jesuit Schools Be Even Better Leaders in Interfaith Work?
Jesuit schools are well-positioned to be leaders in the interfaith movement, not only on college campuses but in American society and around the world.
Hopey Fink is a senior at Georgetown University studying anthropology and linguistics. Originally from Valparaiso, Indiana, she has always been interested in social justice and cross-cultural understanding. At Georgetown, she is active in the Interfaith Student Association and has worked as a research assistant at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the World Faiths Development Dialogue, focusing on West Africa. She is also the chair of the Alternative Breaks Program, an involvement that has allowed her to cultivate a passion for engaging a variety of justice issues over her years at Georgetown. Her interests include children’s rights, indigenous rights, and environmental justice; she loves folk music, tea, board games, biking, and little notebooks. She’s excited for the opportunity to hear and share stories as part of the Ignatian Solidarity Network Media Team!
Jesuit schools are well-positioned to be leaders in the interfaith movement, not only on college campuses but in American society and around the world.
This year, as University President Jack DeGioia flipped the ceremonial switch to illuminate the enormous tree in the middle of the quad, dozens of people dropped to the ground around the tree.
On this chilly November evening, Abel Nuñoz, executive director of CARECEN Central American Resource Center, addresses the forty or so people gathered in a circle by the fence of the White House’s backyard. “We have been coming here since July,” he calls into a megaphone. “We came here in t-shirts, with the sun still in the sky. Now it is darker earlier, and colder, but we are here again. And we demand the same things.” A round of applause passes through the small crowd – a diverse group of individuals brought together over the past few months to form a community around the idea of solidarity.
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The Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) is a national social justice network inspired by the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola. ISN was founded in 2004 and is a lay-led 501(c)3 organization working in partnership with Jesuit universities, high schools, and parishes, along with many other Catholic institutions and social justice partners.