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Most Reverend Mark Seitz

The Most Reverend Bishop Mark J. Seitz, D.D., born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the eldest of ten children. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Dallas in 1980. Bishop Seitz served as pastor in several parishes, taught at the University of Dallas, and was named Prelate of Honor by Pope St. John Paul II in 2004. In 2010, he was ordained a Bishop and served as Auxiliary Bishop of Dallas from 2010 to 2012. In 2013, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Seitz as the sixth Bishop of El Paso, and he has served as the Ordinary of El Paso ever since.

Monique T煤 Nguyen

Monique T煤 Nguyen is the Executive Director of the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement and leads the department to advance stability, economic empowerment, civic ownership, and social integration for immigrants in Boston. She is committed to advocating for immigrants in Boston and building community to further equity and belonging. Director Nguyen has extensive experience in community-driven leadership and economic and racial justice. Before this appointment, she served as Executive Director of Matahari Women Workers鈥� Center for 10 years, advancing the rights and protections for domestic workers, women, immigrants, and their families. She鈥檚 also been recognized for her leadership of the MassUndocuFund, a million-dollar COVID-19 cash relief fund for immigrant workers, and for spearheading the successful passage of the Massachusetts Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2014. Director Nguyen is from Vancouver, Canada, and is the proud daughter of a Vietnam War refugee. She speaks English, Vietnamese, and is learning Spanish. She loves cooking, dancing, hiking, dreaming, and scheming about community building.

Ingrid Bustos Aleman

Ingrid Bustos Aleman is pursuing a dual degree in Theology and Social Work at Boston College. She is a dedicated advocate for education equity and community empowerment. She graduated with a dual major in History and Secondary Education at Dominican University. As an advocate she has developed different avenues to amplify undocumented voices, such as a podcast and other social media platforms. Ingrid is known to use storytelling as a form of advocacy, encouraging others to share their own story on the podcast 鈥淭he Undocumented Archives.鈥� During her time at Dominican, she was president of the Undocumented and Immigrant Allyance which promoted awareness of undocumented student experiences through impactful events and mentoring peers. She has presented these initiatives at conferences such as Caritas Veritas and El Futuro. Ingrid's efforts extend to researching undocumented student retention, facilitating college resource workshops, and creating inclusive spaces on campus. She will continue to carry her passion for storytelling and advocacy to inspire change, foster greater equity and understanding across diverse communities through her professional field.

Dylan Corbett

Dylan Corbett is the founder and executive director of the Hope Border Institute, a faith-based research, advocacy and humanitarian action organization at the US-Mexico border. He has over fifteen years of experience working in international and human development globally, in Washington, DC, and in the borderlands. Dylan has served as an official at the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and also coordinated the work of the Vatican's Migrants & Refugees Section in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Dylan previously worked with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development as well as with the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the USCCB's national anti-poverty program. He has studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Dylan is a board member of the Border Immigration Law & Justice Center, a member of the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and a member of the advisory board of the Texas Resilient States Project. He is also a consultant to the USCCB Committee on Migration. He lives in El Paso with his wife and two children.

Matthew Cuff

Matthew Cuff is a PhD candidate in systematic theology at Boston College. His research focuses on the intersection of theology, politics, and spirituality with the goal of developing a spirituality-grounded theology of political life. He is currently writing his dissertation on the hermeneutics of socio-political change in the life and work of the martyred Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit Ignacio Ellacuria. Matt previously served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Justice and Ecology of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, as well as an advisor to various faith-based advocacy organizations including the Ignatian Solidarity Network and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.听

Armando Guerrero Estrada

Armando Guerrero Estrada is PhD candidate in Theology and Education at Boston College. He currently serves as the inaugural director of the PASOS Network at Dominican University. As a DACAmented theologian, his scholarship examines the interlacing of Catholic higher education, theologies of migration, and immigrant narratives. He holds a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University, where he also earned graduate certificates in Latin American Studies and Religion and the Arts in Contemporary Culture; he was awarded the J.D. Owen Prize in Biblical Studies and the Academic Achievement Award. He holds a B.A. in Theology and Philosophical Studies from St. Joseph Abbey and Seminary College and a B.A. in Spanish from Lamar University.

Jasmin Gonzalez

Jasmin Gonzalez is a first year PhD candidate in the Integrative Studies in Ethics and Theology program at Loyola University of Chicago. She received her Master's of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a BA in Biblical Studies and Theology from Azusa Pacific University. Jasmin has served campus ministries at Azusa Pacific University and Princeton University and continues to bridge her academic work with her commitment to worship communities. Her research interests include womanist ethics, Christian nationalism, theological aesthetics, Hebrew poetry, prophetic imagination, and migration/immigration Christian ethics.

Martha Guerrero

Martha Guerrero is a doctoral candidate at Yale University鈥檚 History Department. Her research focuses on legal immigration pathways and asylum reform during the late twentieth century. Guerrero鈥檚 research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, Yale Law School, University of California-San Diego, and Maria Moors Cabot Prizes. Guerrero holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University鈥檚 School of Foreign Service and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University.

Andrew Hall

Andy Hall (he/him) is a Ph.D. student in Theological Ethics at 香蕉秀. He earned his BA and JD at the University of Arizona. He worked as a lawyer for six years in the public and private sectors, primarily in the area of immigration law. He then attended Princeton Theological Seminary, where he earned his Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Christian Education and Formation.

Andy鈥檚 research focuses on Christian ethical thought as it pertains to issues of immigration, immigration law, borders, and refugee protection. He asks whether states鈥� purported sovereign right to exclude noncitizens, and to impose coercive border controls toward that end, is justifiable, and to what degree such purported right can be constrained by customary international law, treaties like the UN Refugee Convention, domestic constitutional law, human rights principles, and democratic norms.

Andy鈥檚 other research interests include theological anthropology, political theology, Biblical studies, American jurisprudence, and international relations. Andy is an ordained deacon and ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and is also certified ready to receive a call as a minister of Word and Sacrament in that denomination. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

Sarah Hansman

Sarah is a doctoral student in theological ethics at Boston College, originally from the South Shore of Massachusetts. She graduated Boston College in 2018 with a B.A. in theology. Upon graduation, she spent several years in the corporate sector, working in tech sales while simultaneously serving as the development manager for the Women's Foundation of Boston, a 401c3 nonprofit. After much discernment, Sarah returned to Boston College to get her M.Div. at the Clough School of Theology and Ministry where her theological interests came to the forefront.

Sarah鈥檚 research interests center broadly around sex and gender in the Catholic Church. She is specifically interested in the moral agency and the role language, labels, and imagination plays in shaping understandings sex, gender, and Catholicism. Her work draws on liberation, queer, and political theologies with the aim of integrating public scholarship into her doctoral studies. In addition to her studies, Sarah is a hospital chaplain at Boston Medical Center-Brighton and an active prison minister. She is passionate about community organizing, preaching, public speaking, and writing.听

Kristin E. Heyer

Kristin E. Heyer holds the Joseph Chair in Theology and is Professor of Theological Ethics at Boston College. Her monographs include听听(2012) and听(2006), both published with Georgetown University Press. 听She has also published six co-edited volumes, among them (Georgetown University Press, 2024); (Routledge, 2021);听and听(Orbis Books, 2015). 听She serves as co-chair of , a global network that fosters connections within the world church, and Past President of (2024-2025). She is also a consultant to the USCCB Committee on Migration. She has lectured widely in the United States and in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, India, Italy, and Sweden. Dr. Heyer received her B.A. in history from Brown University and her Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College in 2003. She worked at Santa Clara University and Loyola Marymount University before returning to Boston College in 2015.听

Madeline Jarrett

Madeline Jarrett is a PhD candidate in systematic theology at Boston College and the Graduate Research Assistant at the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. Her research engages issues of theological anthropology and eschatology, particularly as they relate to temporality, joy, disability, and agency. Maddie has been published in Philosophy and Theology, Concilium, Political Theology, The Journal of Disability and Religion, and Commonweal Magazine. She is writing her dissertation on temporality, disability, and the Christian eschatological imagination.

Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law and Dean鈥檚 Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School. He teaches Immigration and Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law, and Administrative Law. He has served as Faculty Director of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy and co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice. He founded the Boston College Immigration and Asylum clinic in which students represent indigent migrants and asylum-seekers.听

Professor Kanstroom has published widely in the fields of U.S. immigration law, human rights, and citizenship and asylum law.听 His work includes: Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora听 (Oxford University Press 2012) and Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History (Harvard University Press 2007). His edited books include: The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses (with psychologist M. Brinton Lykes, NYU Press 2015) and Constructing Illegality (with sociologist Cecilia Menjivar, Cambridge University Press 2013). His current book, Deportation World (Harvard University Press), explores the human rights and legal implications of deportation as a global phenomenon. His articles, book reviews and op-eds have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, the UCLA Law Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the French Gazette du Palais, etc.听

He has taught at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, American University, the University of Paris, Northeastern School of Law, King鈥檚 College, London, the University of Hawai鈥檌, and Vermont Law School.听

Guinevere Keith

Guinevere Keith is a graduate student in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University. She earned her MA in Political Science from Boston University, and she integrates social scientific methods into her research on applied Christian ethics and American military mobilization. Guinevere also serves as a Catholic lay minister at the Center for Peace and Justice Education, where she teaches workshops on student advocacy, interfaith dialogue, and resisting Christian nationalism.

Christopher G. Kerr听

Christopher G. Kerr has more than twenty-five years of experience in Catholic education and social justice ministry. Since 2011, he has served as executive director of the Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN), a lay-led national organization grounded in Catholic Social Teaching and the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Chris leads a team of 12 full-time staff advancing transformational formation, collaborative initiatives, and collective action that promote justice, bridge divides, and uphold the dignity of all God鈥檚 creation鈥攑eople and planet. ISN partners with more than 100 Catholic institutions across 25 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces and is best known for convening the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice, the largest annual Catholic social justice gathering in the United States. Through in-person and online programs, advocacy campaigns, and digital resources, ISN engages hundreds of thousands of people each year, particularly young leaders. Under Kerr鈥檚 leadership, ISN acquired Education for Justice, a nationally recognized digital resource library, and launched the Catholic Ethical Purchasing Alliance (CEPA) to strengthen ethical supply chains. In 2020, Kerr was appointed by Very Rev. Arturo Sosa, S.J., Superior General of the Jesuits, to the Advisory Committee for the Jesuit Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat in Rome, a role he continues to hold. He has also served on boards and advisory committees for national Catholic social justice organizations. Chris holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from John Carroll University and lives in Northeast Ohio with his wife, Jill, and their three sons.

Eryn Reyes Leong

Eryn Reyes Leong is an attorney and first-year Ph.D. student in Theological Ethics at Boston College whose academic and professional life have been inspired by her Catholic faith and strong commitment to public service.听 She double majored in Political Science and Religious Studies, with a minor in Anthropology, at Santa Clara University, and obtained her law degree, with a certificate in Environmental Law, from the University of Hawai驶i at M膩noa's William S. Richardson School of Law.听 As a mother scholar and former military spouse, she has lived across the United States with her family, serving various communities.听 Today, her legal studies and faith are being brought into fullness through the intersection of law and theology.

Sister Maryanne Loughry, AM

Dr Maryanne Loughry is an Australian Sister of Mercy, a psychologist and senior advisor for Jesuit Refugee Service, Office of Global Engagement, Boston College, USA. She is also an Associate Fellow of Campion Hall, Oxford and a research associate of the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. Dr Loughry commenced refugee work with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in refugee camps in Southeast Asia in 1988 and was the Pedro Arrupe Tutor at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, from 1996-2003.听Dr Loughry鈥檚 research interests include Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies, the effects of detention on children鈥檚 well-being and climate displacement in the Asia Pacific region.听 In 2010 she was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for service to displaced persons.

M. Mookie C. Manalili

M. Mookie C. Manalili is a psychotherapist, professor, and researcher with particular interest in suffering, embodiment, narratives, forgiveness, and justice. Mookie is an LICSW psychotherapist in a private group practice, utilizing narrative therapy, psychoanalytic approaches, mindfulness traditions, and trauma neuroscience. He is also Part-Time Faculty at the School of Social Work and Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. Additionally, he is co-chair of Psychology and the Other Conference, associate editor of the namesake book series through Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, and co-leader of the Psychological Humanities Lab with David Goodman at Boston College. Finally, he's a PhD Student at Boston University, studying Pastoral Counseling and Psychology, studying under Steven Sandage with the Danielsen Institute's Center for Study of Religion and Psychology. Mookie consults for various dioceses and projects in the Roman Catholic Church. In all his various roles, Mookie hopes to participate in our duty to better our society: particularly for folks who disproportionately suffer injustices; for the widow, orphan, and stranger.

Matt McDermott

Matt McDermott is the new Lead Organizer of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO). GBIO is a broad-based organization 鈥� multi-racial, multi-faith, urban and suburban 鈥� made up of 52 congregations from across greater Boston that work together to build relationships, develop leaders, and take action on issues of common concern to their families and communities. GBIO has worked on and won concrete change on a wide variety of issues from healthcare to criminal justice reform. Prior to GBIO, McDermott served as the Lead Organizer of CONECT (Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut) for 13 years. McDermott led CONECT through successful campaigns on issues as varied as immigrant rights, health insurance rates, criminal justice reforms, police accountability, and numerous local issues. McDermott also organized for twelve years in the greater Chicago area. McDermott served as lead organizer of Lake County United, senior organizer of United Power for Action and Justice, lead organizer of the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP). McDermott is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Residential College with a BA in history. A native of the South Side of Chicago, McDermott lives in Roslindale with his wife.听 He has two daughters away at college.听听

Alejandro Olayo-M茅ndez

Alejandro Olayo-M茅ndez is an assistant professor at the Boston College School of Social Work. His research focuses on migrants鈥� and refugees鈥� livelihoods and the role of humanitarian organizations in contexts of migration and forced displacement.听 He has conducted extensive ethnographic research along migration routes in Mexico. His book by NYU Press analyzes how casas de migrantes or migrant shelters shape the migratory processes in the region. In the past year, he has travelled extensively across the Mexico-US Border exploring Migrants鈥� digital practices, the impact of CBP One, and migrants鈥� wellbeing. He published part of his findings in the report, with Jesuit Refugee Service/US. He has also published an article discussing the experience of Latino immigrants in the United States during the pandemic. He led a research project with the Jesuit Network with Migrants (Latin America and the Caribbean), which explores integration practices and accompaniment of refugees and migrants in 14 countries and their lived experiences in those countries.

Dr. Olayo-M茅ndez received his DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford in 2019.听 He holds a Master in Migration Studies also from the University of Oxford, a Master of Divinity from Boston College, and a Master of Social Work from Loyola University Chicago. Alejandro is a Jesuit Catholic Priest from the West Coast Province in the U.S.

Jaret Ornelas, S.J.

Jaret Ornelas, S.J. is a Jesuit in formation at the Boston College Clough School of Theology in Ministry. Prior to entering the Society of Jesus, Jaret earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Chicana/o studies and Spanish from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and served with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Belize working in campus ministry at St. John鈥檚 College and at a detention center for young people. He earned a master鈥檚 degree in Philosophy and Social Sciences at the ITESO鈥揢niversidad Jesuita de Guadalajara in Mexico. From 2020-2023 Jaret worked with displaced people on the US-Mexico at the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, MX where he offered direct humanitarian aid and organized US-focused education and advocacy efforts. For the last five years, he has been a volunteer with Battalion Search and Rescue, a volunteer organization which searches for people injured or deceased while crossing the US-Mexico borderlands.

Jorge Palacios Jr.

Jorge Palacios Jr. has been the Ignatian Solidarity Network鈥檚 migration coordinator for youth engagement since 2022. Raised on a farm in northern Colorado, he comes from a mixed-status household and is a proud Mexican-American. He attended Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colorado, and later Regis University in Denver, CO. Jorge has a background in ministry, education, music, theology, and conservation work. As Migration Coordinator, he works to connect the Ignatian family to education, advocacy, and youth leadership development, particularly in the area of migration justice. In this role, he has coordinated ISN's Unity Network, which provides a space for students and alumni of Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. who are directly affected by immigration justice realities to network, gain skills, and collaborate on issues of immigration justice. He also serves as chairperson for advocacy for the Central America/North America region of the Red Jesuita con Migrantes (the Jesuit Migration Network of Latinamerica). Jorge enjoys photography, writing, and making music, has remained active in Denver鈥檚 immigrant activist community, and is self-publishing a zine on the legacy of the El Salvadoran civil war, its martyrs, and U.S. imperialism and the need for resistance.

Marjean A. Perhot

Marjean A. Perhot has worked with immigrants and refugees in Boston and Cleveland for 30 years.听 A graduate of St. Mary鈥檚 College in Notre Dame, IN, Marjean was born and raised in Lorain, OH.听 She is the Vice President for Refugee and Immigrant Services and has been in leadership at Catholic Charities Boston since 2005.听 In her current capacity she oversees a social enterprise, Community Interpreter Services, and the immigration legal and refugee resettlement departments.听 A sought-after expert, Marjean is a nationally recognized voice for refugee and immigration issues, offering insight, education and outreach throughout Massachusetts and the nation.听

Mario Russell

C. Mario Russell is the Executive Director at the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS). Mr. Russell is an attorney and professor with over 25 years of experience in migration policy and law. He has lectured and presented extensively and has served on various state, city, and federal immigration policy and practice committees.听 Before joining CMS, Mr. Russell was Director of the Immigrant and Refugee Services Division of Catholic Charities in New York, where he oversaw legal, resettlement, asylum, unaccompanied minors, and day laborer services. He conducted litigation in the federal district and appeals courts and managed the asylum defense clinic at St. John鈥檚 University School of Law, where he teaches immigration and comparative refugee law both in the United States and in Europe.听

Mr. Russell also previously worked as Regional Director for the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), and consulted with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on asylum protection in Eastern Europe. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law and Haverford College (BA, Philosophy), and served as Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard University Law School.听

Margaret Ruthven

Margaret Ruthven is a second-year Master of Divinity student at Princeton Theological Seminary with a focus in Religion and Society. Margaret was born and raised in Florida, where she attended Flagler College and earned a BA in Religion/Philosophy with a minor in Youth Ministry. Margaret is currently serving in field education for the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations (NYC). Margaret serves the student body as the Moderator of the Student Government Association and as a Preceptor for four sections of Speech Communication in Ministry.

Rev. Scott Santarosa, SJ

Scott Santarosa, SJ, is from Sacramento, California.听 He attended Jesuit High School, and that is where he first thought of being a Jesuit.听 After attending Santa Clara University, where he majored in Civil Engineering, he did a year of volunteer work with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.听 He then joined the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits.) During his formation he spent a summer in Guadalajara studying Spanish, and a year in Mexico City, studying theology and Spanish.听 He served as provincial of the Oregon Province and USA West Province for 7 years, but he has most enjoyed pastoral work among Latinos, first in Los Angeles at Dolores Mission, where he served as pastor for 7 years, and currently in San Diego, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, where he has served as Pastor since 2022.

Molly Snakenberg

Molly Snakenberg is a graduate student at the Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry pursuing a Masters of Arts in Theology and Ministry with a concentration in theology and the arts. She is interested in the intersection of art and theology as well as the healing effects that engaging in the arts can have on individuals and communities. As a visual artist, she creates mostly through painting, drawing, and photography and connects this with her theological and ministerial studies.