A Statement from the National Steering Committee for the Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Conference

June 3, 2020

A statement from the National Steering Committee on the Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education

At this moment when we originally planned to convene the 20th Anniversary Conference (now rescheduled to June 2021), we draw inspiration from the call to “the service of faith and the promotion of justice”:

To listen and learn
To invite profound reflection
To acknowledge the history of systematic oppression, especially perpetuated by institutions of higher education
To commit to addressing racial and economic injustice
To affirm Black Lives Matter
To call for an end to violence
To challenge our Jesuit universities to deeper solidarity
To uphold that all human beings are our brothers and sisters and are created in the image and likeness of our Creator.

May we find humility, strength and inspiration from our Ignatian community to work for a more just, peaceful and loving world.

In a spirit of hope,

Andria Wisler (Georgetown), Naomi Yavneh Klos (Loyola, NO), Julia Vargas (Rockhurst), Paola Pascual-Ferra (Loyola, MD), Joe Orlando (Seattle University), David Opitz (Loyola, MD), Erika Kirby (Creighton), Susan Harmaan, (Loyola, Chicago), Mike Duffy (University of San Francisco), Joe DeFeo (AJCU)

Email any questions you have to justiceconference@georgetown.edu.