List of Social Justice Speakers for Catholic Schools and Catechists
Catholic Social Gospel Teaching and Practice
Elizabeth Franklin
Social Justice and Racism
Catholic Campaign for Human Development
The Social Gospel and Social Justice: Social Justice 101
Other Justice topics
Teacher background: speaks to adults & children
Phone: 815-722-3892
Tom Goebel
Time with Mother Teresa and the Poor in Calcutta
Solidarity with Palestinian Christians & Pilgrimage
Ministry of Money
Speaks to Adults
Phone: Peace & Social Justice Ministry 815-834-4028
Kathy Kregor
“Youth Workshop: Creating a Just World” (8 th-12 th grade) or
Advocacy Workshop for adults e-mail: KatDall@aol.com
Phone: Peace & Social Justice Ministry 815-834-4028
Speaks to adults and teens
Art Leamy
Compelling Speaker to Adults on Social Justice
Advocate since the 60’s
Catholic Relief Service
Work of Human Hands
Catholic Campaign for Human Development: Social Justice 101
Speaks to adults or children
Phone: 630-963-4324
Maribeth Meaux
Mountaintop Removal: Its Effect on the People, Creatures, Earth, and Landscape and Our Part in the Devastation and Remedy
Global Warming and Possible Ways to Diminish Harm to the Earth. Speaks to adults E-mail: mmeaux@dioceseofjoliet.org
Or dwight@earthlink.net or phone: 815-834-7283.
Speaks to adults and children of all ages
Joyce Ruhaak
Sharing Stories of Good News: Social Justice & Peace
Social Justice: A Woman’s Role
Eucharist, the Body of Christ, and Social Justice
“Just Faith” and “Moving Faith Into Action” Processes
Peace & Solidarity Pilgrimage to Holy Land
(Liturgical musician & former teacher) speaks to adults or children Phone: 815-834-4036; e-mail:joyceru@dioceseofjoliet.org
Colette Wisnewski
Resources and Lesson Plans for Educating Children in Catholic Social Teaching E-mail: cwisnewski@sbcglobal.net
Writer, poet, & speaker to adults and children
Madonna Wojtaszck-Healy
“Reading It Right: Teaching Catholic Social Teaching
Values through Children’s Literature” e-mail: rootedinloveinc@aol.com
Teacher, speaks to adults or to children
Criminal Justice Issues
Jana Minor
founder Companions Journeying Together e-mail: JANA31341@aol.com
Companions can offer safe, “do-able” projects for students to answer the call of Jesus to visit those in prison such as: prepare Christmas or Mother’s Day cards, packets of stationery, or help provide materials for storybook projects for the children of prisoners.
Speaks to adults and to children.
Sr. Juanita Ujcik
Director of the Center for Correctional Concerns, provides programs and ministery to the incarcerated in the Will County Jail. E-mail: ujcik@juno.com
Speaks to adults.
Pat Williams
Kairos Outside e-mail: patwsfo@comcast.net
Weekend retreat experience for families of men and women incarcerated or persons released from jail or prison. Pat is a grandmother. She speaks to adults and to children.
Joyce Ruhaak
Prisoner Visitation & Support e-mail: joyceru@dioceseofjoliet.org PVS is a national organization that trains and sustains visitors to federal prisons and military prisons. Minors cannot visit non-related incarcerated persons and so the topic is limited to adults.
Diocesan Missions
Sister Shirley Krull
Francis of Assisi and Environmental Justice
Diocesan Missions Speaks to Adults and children
Phone: 815-834-4029 e-mail: skrull@dioceseofjoliet.org
Art Sheridan
Invitation and Stories from Missions in Bolivia,
Ecuador, Kenya, and two in Philippines
Speaks to adults and children
Phone: 815-834-4072 or e-mail:
asheridan@dioceseofjoliet.org
Helen Bills
Retired nurse can speak to children or adults
about health issues or about the many diocesan
Medical Missions Phone: 815-834-4017 or e-mail: hbills@dioceseofjoliet.org
Speaks to adults and children
Deacon Thomas Goebel Mission to Native Americans
or Deacon Larry Lissak “ “ “ “
Contact Peace & Social Justice Ministry 815-834-4028
Immigration Issues
Mehrdad Azemun
IL Immigrant and Refugee Rights e-mail:mazemun@cirr.org
Website: www.icirr.org Phone: 312-332-7360 x14.
Marcia Brown-Medina, MSW Phone: 815-933-7791 x103 e-mail: mmedina@cc-doj.org
Nonviolence
Kathy Kelly
website: www.nonviolence.org/vitw
e-mail: kkelly@igc.apc.org Witness to Iraq & Palestine/Israel Conflicts. Founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Speaks to adults and children
Christian Peacemaker Teams (Chicago) Phone: 773-277-0253 Website: www.cpt.org Excellent speakers relate their stories of time spent in solidarity with people oppressed by violence around the world.
Tom Cordaro, St. Margaret Mary Parish in Naperville’s Justice & Outreach Minister. Over the past 30 years Mr. Cordaro has worked as a professional speaker, writer, organizer and national leader in the faith-based peace and justice movement. In 2002 he was named a Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace. Tom is available to speak on issues related to current events and Catholic Social Teaching, including the "War on Terror," immigration, domestic spending priorities, consumerism and racism. . E-mail: tomcordaro@juno.com
Ken Butigan,
Pace e Bene, speaks on nonviolence. Pace e Bene
Fosters a just and peaceful world through nonviolent education, community-building, and action. A small group of Franciscans formed it in 1989, but it is now diverse spiritually and culturally.
Dr. Marshall Rosenberg,
Director of Educational Services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (Phone: 630-293-1056. e-mail myra @NVCDuPage.org Consult website: www.NVCDUPage.org or national website: www.cnvc.org
Speaks to adults.
Doug Kasper
Information about counter-insurgency training of military from other countries at the School of the Americas located at Ft. Benning in Colombus, GA for use on human rights activists (e-mail: dougnsuds@sbcglobal.net) Speaks to adults and to children.
Conscientious Objection
Bill Ruhaak 815-729-0086 billruhaak@hotmail.com
& Military Recruitment Presentation to high school students and/or adults
