People

Suzanne Belote Shanley, is the co-founder of The Agape Community (1982) in Hardwick, Massachusetts, a lay, Catholic sustainable community, interfaith in practice and dedicated to teaching about and acting in the way of the Nonviolent Jesus.

Fr. Ricardo Avila serves the Roman Catholic Church as a member of the Society of Jesus (USA East Province) and a priest. He joined Catholic Mobilizing Network’s Board of Directors in 2021. Fr. Avila is currently missioned to be a Visiting Fellow and Scholar with the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance and provides free legal…

Mary J. Novak, J.D., M.A.P.S., serves as Associate Director for Mission Integration at Georgetown University Law Center and was the founding Chair of the Catholic Mobilizing Network Board where she continues to serve as Secretary. Mary is an Associate Member of the Congregation of St. Joseph. 

Fr. Ricardo N. Avila, S.J. joined Catholic Mobilizing Network’s board in 2021. He serves the Roman Catholic Church as a member of the Society of Jesus (USA East Province) and a priest. 

Deacon Doug serves the community of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Isaiah holds a Bachelor’s from University of Maryland at College Park. He is a campus missionary at Temple University with Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS). Isaiah is a Lay Dominican who loves leading Bible studies and formation series for young adults. He volunteers with justice-involved individuals in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and is pursuing…

Dr. Eric Strauss is the winner of several National Science Foundation Grants for urban ecology, the President’s Professor of Biology at Loyola Marymount University, and Executive Director of the Restorative Justice Project at the LMU Center for Urban Resilience. The center brings together students, faculty and members of the community to work on the problems…

Dr. Martha Hurley is a college professor in Dayton, Ohio. She is the author of numerous scholarly publications on crime and justice. She is an active member of the Marianist Social Justice Collaborative Death Penalty and Restorative Justice Issue Team.

Cheryllyn Branche is the president of the GU272 Descendants Association, a non-profit representing over 10,000 living and deceased descendants of enslaved children, women, and men sold by the Jesuits of Georgetown University in 1838. Ms. Branche is a retired principal of Xavier University Prep, now St. Katharine Drexel Prep in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her ministries…

Sister Cora Marie has been a member of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas since 1956. From 1956 until 1981, she was a teacher on the elementary and high school level and a part-time professor at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since her move to Virginia in 1981, she…

Frances Kummer holds a Master’s Degree from Loyola Institute of Ministry in New Orleans, Louisiana. She trained as a facilitator and circle keeper and worked in Catechetical Ministry for the Archdiocese of Atlanta before moving to Washington, DC. Frances now works for the Ignatian Spirituality Project as a volunteer and as a companion in the…

Fr. Jude Siciliano, OP, lives in a Dominican community in Irving, Texas and is Promoter of Preaching for the Southern Dominican Province, USA. He has been a preacher since his ordination in 1969. For fourteen years he taught Homiletics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California and is past president of the Catholic Association of…