As I reflect on our annual theme, Place of Belonging, I’m reminded of the many ways our community has shown up for one another — not just in moments of celebration, but in times of grief, fear, courage, and transformation. At IPJC, belonging is not just a feeling — it’s a practice. It’s the sacred work of creating space where people are invited to expand into the fullness of who they are through communally working to create a world where everyone belongs.
A moment that stands out this year was witnessing several of our youth leaders share publicly, their experience as immigrants. They courageously and generously proclaimed joy, beauty, and strength while also sharing the challenge, fear, and pain of who they are while being surrounded by the love and support of their peers and the larger community. Watching these powerful young women claim their stories and power publicly was a gift and is the greatest outcome of our work that we could ever imagine.
All our work at IPJC is oriented towards living out the Gospel by unleashing the potential of the People of God. Through training, leadership development, and collective action, we are growing the capacity of our community to create meaningful, lasting change. In the face of struggle, we remain committed to building intentional relationships for collective power.
Here are just a few ways IPJC has built a place of belonging:
NWCRI brought 20 justice issues into the boardrooms of 30 corporations, filed 28 shareholder resolutions, and participated in over 45 dialogues.
Youth Action Team interns led actions for immigration justice.
Powerful women from Women’s Justice Circles invested in one another and grew collective power through relationship and leadership development.
Sacred Salmon Campaign mobilized over 1000 people for the protection of salmon and engendered reciprocity with Indigenous communities.
These acts of collective courage are only possible because of you. As we move forward, we invite you to help us reach our end of the year fundraising goal of $45,000 by:
Making a one-time or recurring gift.
A tax-free donation from your IRA.
Participating in and promoting our programs, events, and publications.
Choosing IPJC for employer matching contributions.
Naming IPJC in your estate plan.
Praying for our ministry and the building of a more just world.
Thank you for being part of this place of belonging.
In Solidarity, Will Rutt Executive Director
The Way of Sorrow, a social justice themed Stations of the Cross, held on Seattle University’s Campus, led by Youth Action Team Interns (cover photo and pictured right: Will Rutt, YATI intern, Auxiliary Bishop Elizondo (More on pg. 4)
YOUTH ORGANIZING
Belonging through finding your voice
Youth Action Team Interns
The fourth year of our Youth Action Team Internship was our largest cohort yet! In September, we welcomed 15 students from Bishop Blanchet High School, Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Holy Names Academy, and Seattle Preparatory School.
From September to December, the interns engaged in our unique faith-based community organizing curriculum, equipping them with the skills to organize their communities and take action in the second half of the year. In their end of year evaluation of the program, the interns acknowledged that three workshops significantly impacted their formation. The first was the public narrative workshop, which encourages interns to develop and tell a prophetic story about their life
and invite the community to join them in their work for social change. Interns reflected, “this was the first night that I truly saw the lived reality of my peers and could identify with their suffering. Hearing each interns’ story made me feel connection and belonging to this group.”
Interns then engaged in a workshop led by the Women’s Institute for Solidarity and Empowerment (WISE) about asking open ended questions that get to the depth of human experience and listening for social systems in peoples’ stories. Interns were energized to hear about participatory action research that reveals the truth about women’s experiences and to know that female leaders in our community are committed to women’s liberation. One intern noted the impact of this workshop as giving her permission to ask deep and curious questions of others.
As is becoming a tradition for the program, the one-to-one relational meeting training was the biggest highlight of the year for our interns and the community! The interns found joy in the intimacy of one-to-one relational meetings and felt confident taking their first step as public leaders. We were overwhelmed by the support of community organizers and were humbled by their feedback about their time with the interns. One organizer noted, “I am so impressed! I cannot even train adults to hold space or ask such thoughtful questions that get to the heart of a person’s experience so fast!”
“I cannot even train adults to hold space or ask such thoughtful questions that get to the heart of a person’s experience so fast!”
— Partner community organizer
Above: Youth Coalition house meeting training
Above: The Way of Sorrow, Stations of the Cross
Another organizer chimed in, “this is the most seen and affirmed I have felt in a long time. I am excited to get back to my work tomorrow.”
Utilizing their newfound one-to-one skills, the interns began their annual listening campaign to gather information about the issues most impacting the youth and young adult community. After six weeks of listening, the interns completed nearly 130 one-to-ones. Through a collective discernment process in which the interns reflected on the community’s needs and their own self-interest, the interns identified immigration as the issue they would address this year.
After returning from winter break, they began planning two key actions. The first, a popular education event that would allow the Catholic community to learn from individuals with diverse documentation status about immigrating to the U.S. Five panelists contributed their wisdom to the event. The interns then facilitated Conversations in the Spirit in small groups to help those that witnessed the panel internalize their learnings and determine next steps for action. The community was then invited to take action to support the expansion of Apple Healthcare for undocumented workers, raising funds for legal aid for immigrants, and to call for the release of a detained activist. With roughly 120 participants present at the popular education event, the interns completed over 100 community actions in less than 10 minutes!
Following in the footsteps of last year’s leaders, the interns designed a Lenten action. The Way of Sorrow, a social justice themed stations of the cross, which took place on Seattle University’s Campus. Nearly 100 Catholics processed out of the Chapel of St. Ignatius through campus stopping at unique points to reflect on the life of Jesus. At each station, an adult leader from the community read a vignette of Jesus’
experience followed by one of our interns sharing their experience of immigration. The evening ended with Bishop Elizondo, accompanied by two interns, asking the community to act on the issues outlined above. This action was a powerful testament to the interns’ commitment to being prophetic truthtellers!
We will continue work on immigration in the fall with the next cohort of interns!
Youth Action Team Fellows
This year we were privileged to accompany two fellows from Holy Names Academy as they continued their commitment to leadership development and social action.
Recognizing that our first year and second year interns were struggling to accomplish long-term systemic change outcomes and that building a new social movement each year was unsustainable, we reenvisioned the structure of our youth programming. This new vision would identify three social justice issues to work on for the next five years. Led by the fellows and supported by the interns, internal youth coalitions focused on each identified priority would work to build actions and mobilize the community each year. With a vision set, we asked ourselves, “what three issues will we select and what issues will youth be most energized to work on?”
Knowing it would be poor organizing practice to pick issues without listening to the youth across the Archdiocese of Seattle, we built out a yearlong listening campaign. The task of this year’s fellows was to train leaders and implement the listening campaign, ensuring that we listened to at least 500 youth!
Above: Refugee for the Weary panelists sharing their own immigration stories.
YOUTH ORGANIZING BY THE NUMBERS: 12 interns and 2 fellows
+500 students engaged in listening campaign
3 priority issues: immigration, access to healthcare, access to housing
+300 students received at least one organzing workshop
From September to October, our fellows built a group of core leaders to help them complete the listening campaign. Through one-to-ones, they identified 11 leaders to participate in community organizing trainings. In January and February, these leaders received trainings in public narrative and house meetings from the fellows and IPJC staff. After completing their trainings, the leaders began a listening campaign holding house meetings for affinity and social justice clubs from Catholic high schools. Data was gathered at each house meeting to be utilized in our discernment process.
IPJC was also invited into a unique opportunity to collaborate with Bishop Blanchet High School on their Diversity Leadership Summit (DLS). The summit gathers leaders from affinity clubs from Catholic high schools across Seattle for a day of leadership development, solidarity, community building, and fun! Blanchet asked if we would train their student leaders to be able to confidently hold space and conversation during affinity space gatherings throughout the summit. We asked if we could utilize this opportunity to contribute to our youth listening campaign, and the staff at Blanchet was energized by the idea! We trained DLS leaders in public narrative and house meetings to prepare them for their affinity spaces. On March 29, 2025, nearly 300 BIPOC students and white allies participated in two house meetings in their affinity groups providing IPJC with vast
wisdom about the realities of being a Catholic high school student of color living in Seattle and the surrounding areas.
Through DLS, fellows house meetings, and four years’ worth of one-to-ones, IPJC’s youth program was able surpass the goal of listening to 500 Catholic high school students. On June 2nd, current and graduated interns gathered with leaders who supported the listening campaign to discern three priority social justice issues that the program will focus on for the next five years through a synodal discernment process. We are excited to announce that our interns and fellows have identified immigration, access to healthcare and housing as the three issues they are committed to addressing!
YATI PRIORITY ISSUES
Immigration
Access to healthcare
Access to Housing
Above: Conversation in the Spirit about immigration. Below: Youth Action Team Interns and IPJC staff!
NW IGNATIAN ADVOCACY SUMMIT
In March of 2025, IPJC in collaboration with Jesuits West and Seattle University, co-hosted the third annual Northwest Ignatian Advocacy Summit. The summit brought together students, faculty, staff, parishioners, and community members of Jesuit institutions from across the Pacific Northwest to engage deeply with the ecological and social justice issues affecting our shared watershed and to take collective action for change.
Over three days the summit offered training and accompaniment of students as they explored their own stories in relationship with this shared home, especially in relation to endangered salmon populations of the Columbia River Basin. By centering the ecological crisis, the summit created space for participants to identify their own stake in this critical issue, grow in their capacity to work for justice, and ultimately stand in solidarity with tribal communities.
To build an intergenerational community of solidarity, both evening sessions invited adult community members to attend. On the first evening, JoDe Goudy, former chair of the Yakama Nation, shared about how salmon are sacred and central to the cultural identity and survival of Indigenous communities in the Northwest. After hearing him share, intergenerational small groups reflected on the question: “What makes salmon sacred to you?”. The second evening featured what has become an annual practice of “story tables” as leaders shared stories about their own ecological conversions inviting participants to do the same in small intergenerational groups. These evenings provided access points for shared wisdom, bridging generational divides, and cultivating mutual respect.
NW ADVOCACY SUMMIT BY THE NUMBERS: +150 participants at the town hall 65 high school students trained
Throughout the rest of the three days students engaged in various workshops, went on a litter pilgrimage, and imaginatively prayed together outside.
IPJC played a pivotal role in equipping participants with skills-based training, like one-to-ones and public narrative to build relational movements that foster lasting change. Over the last three years the summit has continually become more oriented towards not only addressing the issue of salmon but empowering communities, particularly high school and college students, to apply these tools to broader justice issues.
The summit culminated with the Sacred Salmon Town Hall, a powerful moment of collective action and storytelling, where students invited elected officials to listen to the experiences and perspectives of our community. The town hall was led and designed by a group of Seattle University students who created intentional spaces of participation for high school students and community partners.
Above: Artwork from the town hall
Below: Student workshop
IGNITE 2025
Ignite is a week-long faith-based community organizing training in collaboration with Agape Service Project. The week emphasizes the importance of both direct service and direct action; meeting basic needs and advocating for a world in which the dignity of all people is honored.
The week was another tremendous success—bringing together high school students from across the West coast for a week of fun, faith, service, and leadership formation. Over 30 students from Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in San Diego, Verbum Dei and Loyola High School in Los Angeles, and Seattle Prep and Centro Rendu in Seattle, came together at Church of the Assumption in Bellingham, Washington.
Students began the week by learning about the roles of identity, privilege, and self interest in organizing, and building relationships through one-to-one meetings with peers from other schools. They then engaged in a collaborative discernment process, identifying and prioritizing the issues most urgent in their own communities. This process equipped them with the tools to return home ready to take faith-filled, strategic action for change.
IGNITE BY THE NUMBERS: 33 students 24 scholarships provided 5 communities represented ~700 families served
Above: Ignite 2025 student and adult participants!
Right: Students picking blueberries at a local organic farm to get a small taste of what farmworkers experience daily.
Service experiences deepened their understanding of solidarity and community. By day, participants visited agricultural nonprofits and learned directly from those working for systemic change in the county. By evening, they joined farmworker families for moments of joy— painting nails, blowing bubbles, and making friendship bracelets. They also prepared for and staffed the weekly food bank, where they helped provide culturally relevant, fresh food to nearly 700 families.
The week concluded with a joyful celebration at the lake—a space for reflection, gratitude, and hope. Participants left Ignite not only with new skills and friendships, but with a deeper faith. Throughout the week IPJC staff provided seven different leadership development workshops providing foundational community organizing skills like power mapping, team building, and one-to-one relational meetings.
A MATTER OF SPIRIT
Building belonging through storytelling
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AMOS BY THE NUMBERS: 15,000+ of the 4 issues digitally accessed 16,400 print copies distributed
“Thank you for all you do to live out the Gospel message.”
—
Barb Pugh
”I've just read my e-mails of the day and I want to tell you how glad I am to read of your speaking out about all that is happening in our country these days.“
—Mary Ann Knowles
Top: Community enrichment activities with the farmworker community. Above: Student packaging portions of rice in preparation distribution from the food bank.
Belonging through shared stewardship and accountability
The Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment (NWCRI) and Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) stakeholders continue to organize and persist in holding companies accountable to benefitting the common good. We continue to leverage shareholder power to build places of belonging.
Many communities and peoples are at great risk of further dehumanization and marginalization. The change in the federal administration has ushered in untold harm through dramatic shifts in policy and deregulation through executive orders. While deregulation may decrease cost and boost profits in the short term, in the long-term the uncertainty of clean-energy investments, higher climate and health costs, and the reallocation of taxes and spendings to benefit higher income households will increase risks for public health, climate damage, corporations, decrease shareholder value, and most importantly strip the human dignity of people and communities around the world.
The shareholder advocacy space has also been impacted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mid-season rules changes, making it easier for companies to challenge and omit environmental and social impact proposals from their proxies. Similarly, trade associations are lobbying congress to limit filings of environmental and social shareholder proposals, and hamstring proxy advisors from advising clients on ESG issues.
Despite these headwinds, faith-based and values-based investors had a successful proxy season asking shareholders to protect and promote human rights and worker rights' in the sugar supply chain in India, to provide workplace heat stress protection, increased transparency on the impact on gig workers, and paid sick leave in the retail industry. For the first time investors
THIS YEAR NWCRI BROUGHT 20 JUSTICE ISSUES TO THE BOARDROOMS OF 30 CORPORATIONS, FILED 28 SHAREHOLDER RESOLUTIONS, AND PARTICIPATED IN OVER 45 DIALOGUES.
We engaged corporations on numerous issues including:
• Child and migrant labor abuses in supply chains
• Worker health and safety
• Freedom of association
• Workplace protection of workers from heat stress and second hand smoke exposure
• Domestic and global access to affordable healthcare
• Tax transparency
• Children rights for online safety
• Racial and gender equity gaps
• Children online safety; and safe development of AI by design and AI data protection
filed a tax-transparency proposal in the pharmaceutical industry and an externalization cost related proposal in the healthcare industry!
A highlight of the year for NWCRI was engaging the largest healthcare corporation in the world, UnitedHealth Group as well as engaging pharma companies to increase access and affordability of healthcare and medicines. Our health system spends at least twice as much as other western nations and yet the U.S. has the highest reported rates of maternal and infant mortality, avoidable and treatable conditions, and chronic disease burden rate. Exclusion continues to permeate the healthcare system, especially the 26 million people that are uninsured and 25% of workers that are underinsured.
Despite medical advancements, the rising cost of treatments and gaps in insurance shift more of the cost burden onto patients, leaving their families vulnerable to medical debt. The recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill, which cuts funding for Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will only further exacerbate health inequalities. Faith-based investors believe healthcare is a fundamental human right and that access to healthcare and patient outcome should not be dependent on one’s income.
A few critical highlights of our work follows.
ICCR & NWCRI BY THE NUMBERS:
347 resolutions filed
66 proposals withdrawn for agreement
43% proposals went to a vote
19.5% average vote garnered on Proxy
13 proposals won a majority vote
47% of filings were challenged
3.6x increase in filings challenged by companies 24% proposals were challenged by companies
NWCRI & ICCR members believe that shareholder engagement in public policy discussion is crucial to mitigate the risks of adverse social and environmental impacts. Shareholders continue to engage companies in a number of priority areas including climate change, gender and racial equity, human/worker rights, environment, lobbying/ political spending, health equity and governance. The overall number of resolutions filed decreased except for corporate governance and lobbing/ political spending.
During company engagements the filing of a resolution will often cause companies to reach out to negotiate a withdrawal.
ICCR 2025 Filings Across Issues
NWCRI 2025 Proposals Filed
FILINGS ACROSS ISSUES
FILING OUTCOMES
Human Rights in Sugar Supply Chain
Last year, a New York Times Investigation exposed how children and migrant workers in sugar farms and mills located in the Maharashtra State of India were pushed into underage marriage, locked in years of debt bondage by brokers and mill owners, and pressured into unnecessary and coerced hysterectomies to keep them working in sweltering sugar fields. For years, government officials and regulators have done little to address these abuses. The investigation further revealed that mills receive “compliant” certifications despite clear forced labor indicators, largely because the assessment scope excludes farm-level operations where the most severe exploitation occurs. NWCRI & ICCR members filed shareholder resolutions at Mondelez and PepsiCo asking the companies to demonstrate how they are combating child labor, forced labor, and gender-based exploitation in India’s sugar fields. The new SEC rules made it easier for PepsiCo to retroactively challenge and omit the proposal from its proxies. Given the PepsiCo ruling, the Mondelez resolution was withdrawn.
Health Equity
In recent decades, the global HIV response has made extraordinary strides, particularly in Africa’s highestburden countries. By 2024, an impressive 78% of the 20.8 million people with HIV in eastern and southern Africa had achieved viral suppression on a daily dose of antiretroviral therapy. With the cuts to the United States President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief and the U. S. Agency for International Development we urged Gilead and Moderna to make their lifesaving drugs globally affordable. Gilead’s recently approved, highly effective, twice-a-year injectable HIV drug, Lenacapavir, has the potential to eradicate HIV. Investors challenged Gilead to make these lifesaving medications accessible to low- and middleincome countries (LMIC). The proposal on proxy was well received, garnering 35.9% of the vote. The proposal at Moderna to increase COVID 19 vaccine access in LMICs was withdrawn for an agreement.
A 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation survey of consumer experience with health insurers found that 58% of insured adults had encountered challenges utilizing their health insurance with 4 in 10 individuals reporting that denied claims contributed to their difficulty paying medical bills. As the largest and most vertically integrated healthcare company, with reach into all aspects of the health care system, investors engaged UnitedHealth Group (UNH) on its policies and practices. Originally a small insurance company, UNH is now the largest healthcare company in the U.S. with over 2700 affiliated subsidiaries including clinics, pharmacies, rehabs, home and skilled nursing care facilities, employing 1 in 10 U.S. physicians. Across these business lines, UNH has been accused of prioritizing profits over care through business practices that delay and deny treatments and for overbilling taxpayers via its privatized Medicare plan exposing the company to over 30 lawsuits and congressional scrutiny. NWCRI member, the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, was the lead filer of an investor proposal asking UNH to report on the public health-related impacts and risks of its business practices externalize on the larger economy.
ICCR members engaged four pharma companies requesting that they publish the results of a human rights impact assessment (HRIA) as it relates to medication access. The shareholders’ proposal at Merck and Johnson and Johnson garnered 15.4% and 11.4% of shareholder votes on their proxy, respectively. The specific proposal asks at Eli Lily and AbbVie were focused on access to affordable insulin and anticompetitive practices of raising prices, respectively. Due to changes in SEC rules, the resolution at Eli Lily was omitted while the AbbVie proposal was withdrawn for continued engagement.
Tax Transparency
The 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act passed by the first Trump administration created a loophole enabling multinational pharmaceutical companies to avoid domestic taxes by shifting profits offshore to their foreign subsidiaries.
75% of all Big Pharma income is reported offshore for tax purposes even though much of their revenue comes from sales in the U.S. In 2021, Merck’s blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda reported over $22.4 billion in sales in the U.S. (46% of Merck’s sales), while Merck only paid 15% of the tax it owed to the federal government. In fact, since 2016, despite Americans paying more for drugs, Merck reported over a $10 billion in loss in the U.S. market while reporting over $96 billion in profits internationally. These aggressive tax practices present unknown risks including heightened attention from tax authorities and risks from changing laws and regulations. Investors asked for transparency regarding their tax policy to better asses the current risk to the company which received strong investor support with a 22.8% share of the vote.
Community Health & Nutrition Equity
The overall smoking trend in the U.S. has been decreasing over the last few decades. While cigarette use has declined, usage of smoke-free products such as e-vapor, nicotine pouches, and heated tobacco has increased. In 2024, 1.21 million high school and over 400,000 middle school students used e-vapes, which contain harmful substances such as addictive nicotine and cancercausing chemicals. Shareholders challenged Altria to publicly disclose its effectiveness on its stated goals of “taking action to transition millions of adult smokers away from cigarettes to potentially less harmful alternatives” as well as limiting new youth and adult smokers from starting the habit. The resolution was withdrawn for progress made on transitioning smokers to less harmful products and and for promised annual updates. Currently in the US, there is no standard nutrition labeling that enables consumers to compare the relative healthiness of products across brands. Recently developed and internationally recognized nutrient profiling models would
do just that. ICCR members filed resolutions at Kraft Heinz & Mondelez to adopt one of these models so consumers can make informed decisions around their consumption and health. Kraft Heinz outlined plans to address some of the key concerns raised in the proposal, so the proposal was withdrawn. Mondelez challenged the proposal claiming it already has labeling on all its products. The proposal was omitted on grounds of micromanagement by shareholders.
Gun Safety
The number one cause of mortality for teens remains homicide with a firearm. Toys marketed to pre-teens such as motorized Nerf Blasters are brightly colored but otherwise resemble semi-automatic weapons in form and advertisement. Hasbro insists they are only meant to look like space weapons. ICCR & NWCRI members filed a children rights due diligence proposal with Hasbro. The proposal was withdrawn upon commitment from Hasbro to include information about our filing in their proxy and through plans to address our concerns in a process required by European reporting regulations.
Workers’ Rights
ICCR members continue to uphold that responsible business practices include prudent workforce management that assure and upholds workers’ rights. This year, NWCRI brought two worker health and safety resolutions to two companies; Walmart and Dollar General.
In 2022, Janikka Perry, a 38-year-old Walmart associate, felt faint soon after reporting on a short-staffed night shift. The company knew of her history of heart disease and diabetes; nonetheless, she was reportedly told by her manager “to pull yourself together.” She continued to work and hours later she dialed 911 from the restroom reporting difficulty breathing stating “I feel like I am about to pass out.” When the ambulance arrived, she was unconscious and rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead from a heart attack.
From 2015 – 2022 Walmart had the 2nd highest rate of severe workplace injury among all U.S. employers and in 2024, The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health named Walmart one of its “dirty dozen” unsafe companies due
to conditions like the 1,100 shooting incidents that have occurred at Walmart stores since 2014, resulting in the death of 300 people. Additionally, according to workers and labor organizers, many workers are pressured to work while sick or in pain. The resolution asked the company to disclose the steps that the board has taken to address repeated health and safety concerns, including injury rates, and any policy changes such as paid sick leave and executive incentive compensation. On proxy, the proposal garnered 7% of the vote.
Though Dollar General has reported over three decades of consecutive growth and profit, reports of neglecting the safety and wellbeing of its workers continue. A 2023 resolution asking the company for a safety audit to address reports of unsafe conditions, understaffing, and violence at many of its stores garnered over 77% shareholder support! The company refused to engage with the shareholders who led this proposal and instead chose an anti-union law firm to conduct an audit that found few problems with company policies.
In last year’s settlement with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Dollar General was fined $12 million for repeated safety violations and agreed to increase safety protocols. The National Labor Relations Board also ruled that Dollar General was practicing “blatant hallmark unfair labor practices” based on their corporate response to store workers attempting to unionize in Connecticut. Workers report continued understaffing, low pay, and feeling unsafe at stores, with no meaningful changes since the audit and agreement with OSHA. This year’s shareholder proposal focused on requesting a corporate-wide human rights policy, with emphasis on protection for workers and customers still experiencing unsafe conditions in stores. On proxy, the resolution received 22.9% of the vote.
As greenhouse gases continue to warm the planet, summers are getting hotter and heat extremes are becoming more frequent, putting peoples’ health at risk. Heat is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S.; with a record 2,325 people dying from heat related illness in 2023. Agricultural, construction, and airline industry workers are forced to work in these extreme temperatures. Despite rising temperatures, airline attendants and support staff working on the tarmac or cleaning cabins on hot days do not have increased breaks or access to cooling devices. One plane attendant reported that an auxiliary power unit was not working and that the temperature was "incredibly high," adding, "I was hot, dizzy, confused and then blacked out.” ICCR members filed resolutions at American and Delta asking for worker safety rights during hot days based on attendants and support staff reports of heatstroke symptoms — headache, confusion, dizziness, and fainting — while working on the tarmac. The resolutions were withdrawn for disclosures on their efforts to address heat-related stress on their workers.
Climate & Environmental
We continue to press companies to prevent and mitigate environmental harm on communities exposed to cancercausing chemicals and pollutants. The first step in this harm reduction is accurate quantification of harmful emissions. Reducing methane emissions is the most effective way to limit climate warming in the short-term given its relative potency and its estimated cause of 30% of all human induced warming. Recent studies of direct measurements of emissions using satellite and infrared cameras reveal that the indirect measurements reported by the Environmental Protection Agency are undercounting emissions by anywhere between 3 to 12 times what has been recorded, mainly due to large-scale unpredictable releases not accounted for through its current measuring system. Anterio Resources, a natural gas and liquids company operating in the Appalachian Basin, is one of the largest U.S. suppliers of natural gas and liquified petroleum gases to the global export market. Shareholders asked the company to report on direct methane emissions by adopting the methane emissions reporting standards of the Oil & Gas Methane Program 2 framework developed by the United Nations. The proposal was withdrawn for continued dialogue.
Immigrant Rights
For over a decade ICCR has worked with private prisons to improve the human rights of incarcerated people. This year we engaged The Geo Group (GEO), the largest private prison operator in the U.S., regarding its immigration detention facilities and their tracking application that has reportedly become central to this administration’s expedited deportation of immigrants. In 2025, The GEO Group invested $70 million to retrofit facilities to expand detention capacity, secure transportation, and provide electronic monitoring services for ICE. These tracking apps were initially implemented, by the previous administration, as a cost saving measure to release undocumented immigrants facing deportation into the community. Using GEO’s tracking devices immigrants sent weekly selfies confirming their location and identity. These apps are now being used to locate and deport immigrants without due process. Investors continue to dialogue with the company on respecting the international standards for human and immigrant rights.
Racial Equity
U.S. IMMIGRANTS BY THE NUMBERS:
of the population 17.7% of the labor force 26.1% of agricultural workers 25.7% of construction workers
23.6% of STEM workers 15.9% of Nurses
Undocumented immigrants spending power ~$300 billion
$652 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2023 — similar to Belgium’s economy
In 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and subsequent public outcry, Walmart launched a 5-year diversity and inclusion commitment. In November 2024, after the election of the current administration, Walmart rolled back its diversity initiatives, cutting racial equity training and eliminating supplier diversity program. Shareholders filed a proposal asking for a third-party racial equity audit (REA) analyzing the adverse impacts of Walmart’s business practices on people of color as well as providing recommendations for improving the company’s racial equity impact. On proxy, it received almost 7% of investor support.
46% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children
NWCRI refiled its free, prior, and informed consent proposal, asking for a report on the effectiveness of the bank’s policies and practices with respect to Indigenous rights in corporate financing of projects. Both Citigroup and Wells Fargo filed a challenge at the SEC and lost! On proxy, they earned 13.4% and 11.9% of their respective votes, lower than last year.
Above: Immigration Pilgrimage of Hope, October 4, 2025, from St. Leos' Tacoma, WA to the ICE Detention Center.
*Resolutions filed by the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia from their office.
NWCRI
A program of the Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center, the Northwest Coalition of Responsible Investment is a member of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a national coalition of over 300 faith-based investors who are Inspired by Faith, Committed to Action. These highlights summarize the work that NWCRI has done in collaboration with ICCR during the past year.
Timnit Ghermay Director, NWCRI
Other Significant Agreements
Costco is the 12th largest U.S. company and sources commodities associated with deforestation such as beef, palm oil, and paper. Shareholders asked for a comprehensive deforestation assessment and action plan for its Kirkland products which was withdrawn for agreement.
XPO Logistics, one of the largest less-thantruckload freight carriers, agreed to publicly disclose its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, and set a near-term target for electrifying a percentage of its yard tractors by 2030.
JPMorgan Chase agreed to consider free, prior, and informed consent before proceeding with transactions that may have material implications for Indigenous Peoples.
A disproportionate number of dual-use items manufactured by Texas Instruments have been found on the Ukrainian battlefields. An investor proposal on establishing a due diligence process to determine whether its customers’ use of its products contribute to violations of international humanitarian law was withdrawn for a global human rights policy and disclosures regarding its efforts to combat illicit chip diversion to Russian weapons systems.
Members
Adrian Dominican Sisters
Benedictine Sisters, Cottonwood, Idaho
Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel
Congrégation des Soeurs des Saints, Noms de Jésus et de Marie Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace
Jesuits West
Northwest Women Religious Investment Trust
PeaceHealth
Providence St. Joseph Health
Sisters of Providence, Mother Joseph Province
Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus & Mary, U.S.-Ontario Province
Tacoma Dominicans
Shareholders asked for a third-party audit of Chipotle workplace health and safety given repeated incidences of customer violence and shooting of workers, which was withdrawn for a more meaningful disclosure of its health and safety practices and continued dialogue with investors.
In a win for shareholder rights, Apple, AeroVironment, Exact Sciences, and Yelp all agreed to give shareholders nominating candidates to their boards of directors’ sufficient time to cure any procedural errors rather than giving them last minute notice.
U.S. Food Holding agreed to disclose its emission reduction strategies to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets and update shareholders annually on its progress toward having 67% of their suppliers emissions covered by science-based targets by 2027.
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WOMEN’S JUSTICE CIRCLES
Belonging through solidarity
Justice Facilitator Annual Gathering
In early February, nine Women’s Justice Circle facilitators gathered in Federal Way for a two-day retreat and training hosted by IPJC (pictured above). They opened their time together with each of the respective circles represented (Federal Way, Aberdeen, Mattawa, Port Townsend, Tigard) sharing their work through presentations. It was a beautiful moment of celebration for each Indvidual community. Throughout the rest of the time together the group oscillated between restful and rejuvenating practices of self-care and leadership workshops. To rest and care for themselves, the leaders had a morning yoga session, jewelry making session, and late-night karaoke. The feeling and spirit of belonging was palpable as the group belted Spanish classics and the opportunity to be together in joy was a powerful act of resistance and solidarity.
The leadership workshops focused on public narrative, developing 30-60-90 day action plans, and cultivating practices for healing and empowerment. Each of the circles walked away with clear next steps and a reinvigorated sense of purpose and direction. Subsequent monthly Zoom calls have provided moments of accountability, ongoing support, and strategy. We are grateful for the ways that each of these women courageously and boldly live out a vision of justice in their own communities.
Facilitator Network
Leaders of circles gathered throughout the year on monthly Zoom calls. The relational time together provided space for on-going leadership development and training, brainstorming and best practices sharing, and celebration of communal wins. These monthly calls have been a critical convening supported by IPJC staff to continue accompanying our leaders.
Federal Way Circle
This powerful group of women chose to focus on ending domestic violence in the community and to develop a co-op of entrepreneurial women who run their own businesses and collectively share resources.
Aberdeen Circle
The circle continues its mental health work with IPJC serving as the group’s fiscal sponsor. The circle created opportunities for mental health healing through art, supporting families in their parenting by hosting a training called “Guiding Good Choices,” and putting on their 4th annual Caminata para la salud mental (Mental Health Walk).
A NEW VISION
You may have recently noticed a reduction in activity through the Women’s Justice Circle program. Over the last few years, we have slowly seen that the program in its current form is struggling to build the collective power that we need to create change and not providing the level of accompaniment and leadership development that we desire. As a result, this upcoming fiscal year we will be sunsetting the Women’s Justice Circle program and replacing it with a new center wide women’s leadership cohort trained and supported by the center. The current community of Women’s Justice Circle leaders will be invited into this new structure with the aims of deeper integration, increased support, and more powerful action together.
Above: Women‘s Justice Circle facilitators gathered for their two-day retreat and training
SACRED SALMON CAMPAIGN
Belonging to Our Common Home
The Sacred Salmon campaign has deepened IPJC’s commitment to creating a place of belonging for all and living Laudato Si’ by caring for our common home. We are devoted to listening and responding to the cry of the poor and fostering community action for greater environmental justice that upholds the challenges and wisdom of frontline communities. We are grateful to co-responsibly work with our tribal partners in protecting the Sacred.
Clean Air Initiative
After planting for ecosystem restoration along the Lower Snake River during the 2024 Canoe journey, IPJC supported the Clean Air Collaboration led by Ione Ironhorse Jones of Khimstonik between Fall 2024 and Spring 2025. This working group — consisting of scholars, scientists, faith community representatives, NGO and government workers — created a health impact report targeting air quality concerns on Yakama Reservation lands and Yakima County, and documenting impact on outdoor first line workers and traditional resource gatherers.
Xlothma Nomyanawite
We joined community partner Khimstonik during Xlothma Nomyanawita on April 19thto recognize Palouse tribal and ancestral voices that hold Indigenous ecological, cultural, and traditional food sovereignty knowledge and support their sovereign land and fishing rights.
We supported Khimstonik’s Healing Snake River Canoe Journey for a second year in a row by creating identifying cards for native plants, and sovereign foods and medicines planted in April to honor Palouse elders and ancestors. This collaboration was led by a regional ecological wisdom holder from Indigenous Just Transition. The community paddled and helped survey planting grounds from Lyons ferry to Fishhook
Camp where Ione’s family previously resided before forced removal of her ancestors due to the building of the Lower Snake River dams. During the journey, Ione’s family celebrated their recent milestone of building a dugout canoe using traditional Palouse knowledge.
Majestic Matriarchy
In June, over 200 community members gathered at St. Joseph Catholic Church for an evening to celebrate and witness the wisdom of Indigenous women in connection with the matriarchal power and legacy of the Southern Resident Orcas. The evening began with a community expo featuring over 20 environmental justice organizations and a delicious meal of salmon. Participants moved into the sanctuary and from the altar seven women shared their art, stories, wisdom, grief, and love reflecting specifically on what they have learned from the matriarchs of the J Pod. At the end of the evening participants were invited to act by calling for the removal of the Lower Snake River dams and encouraging Govenor Ferguson to be a strong and clear advocate to protect, nurture, and restore our sacred home.
Top and right: Majestic Matriarchy at St. Joseph church, Seattle WA.
Left: Clean Air Campaign led by Ione Ironhorse Jones (pictured on right).
With the aim of grounding the community in Pope Francis’ invitation to become Pilgrims of Hope in 2025, over 120 Catholics gathered for an experience of community, learning, and strategizing. The day featured a keynote speech and fireside chat with Dr. Bullard “Father of Enviromental Justice” who shared his inspiring and prophetic work on climate justice. Participants went on a “litter pilgrimage” cleaning up Seattle University’s adjoining neighborhood while prayerfully reflecting on our shared call to care for our common home. The day concluded with parish families meeting to begin planning Pilgrimages of Hope for Creation during the Season of Creation.
Find the Sacred Salmon Pilgrimage Toolkit at: bit.ly/4lVMBG7
“SALMON - I AM”
by Kathy Roberg, FSPA, Spokane
Why am I here? What's my purpose? Surrounded by warmish waters, slimy - plastic chips sticking – I feel sick... I surge ahead, know deeply my destination –will I make it?
I twist, I turn, I hit hard, cold solid, I’m determined.
I push, I dive, maybe – I hurt, I pain –every movement kills me.
Oh, my life is gone – wasted – for what! GREED!
Above: Dr. Robert Bullard addresses a full auditorium on ”The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice: Why Equity Matters.“
Left: Pilgrimage for Hope Summit, Earth Day litter pick up in the Seattle University neighborhood.
SACRED SALMON CAMPAIGN BY THE NUMBERS:
+260 e-actions taken
75 leaders trained
+700 event participants
Sacred Salmon Leadership Cohort
In Spring 2025, the Sacred Salmon Leadership Cohort was created to build a bridge between tribal-led environmental justice leaders in our region and rising Catholic justice leaders. Twelve Catholic leaders spent two months learning from IPJC’s partners such as Jay Julius, W’tot lhem of Se’Si’Le, Julian Matthews of Nimiipuu, and Abby Dalke of Save Our Wild Salmon among others. During the experience, they learned about tribal-led action calls, including legislative action, community campaigns within and beyond universities, schools, and parishes. Rooted in a deep commitment to act for greater environmental justice, each leader was invited to organize a Sacred Salmon Pilgrimage during the Season of Creation. IPJC set a goal of accompanying 10 communities on pilgrimage.
COLLABORATIONS
Belonging through increased capacity for justice
Collaborative for Catholic Organizing
IPJC has continued as one of the coordinating organizations of the collaborative as we build a community of organizers, theologians, social ministry staff, and people committed to social justice. This growing ministry has been a resource for people that share a vision of justice in the U.S. Catholic Church to come together for support, growth, and strategy. A couple of highlights from the work include:
Bi-annual in-person gathering focused on collaboration between community organizing movements and organizations, and the Catholic academy at the University of San Francisco
Quarterly virtual gatherings focused on immigration, more culturally responsive and inclusive movement building, and a spiritual gathering for processing the election.
6-week Catholic Social Thought for organizers course
Publishing in Villanova’s Catholic Social Thought JournalOrganizing, Synodality, and Catholic Social Thought & Practice
Parish Organizing Projects
St. Leo - Tacoma, WA
The revitalization of St. Leo’s social justice ministry began in November 2023, when Rick Samyn asked IPJC to partner and consider ways of integrating faith-based community organizing practices into parish life. IPJC developed a proposal to empower parishioners through Catholic Social Thought, faith-based community organizing, and synodality to be implemented beginning in 2024. Throughout 2024 and 2025, this project, now called St. Leo’s Food Justice Ministry, experienced significant growth, emerging as a powerful parish initiative.
2024 began with an initial one-to-one training and a parish-wide listening campaign, where parishioners and IPJC staff conducted over 60 one-to-one relational meetings with parishioners, community leaders, and those impacted by food insecurity. This campaign laid the foundation for selecting food justice as the group’s central focus in October 2024. By November, a second group interested in food security formed within the parish. Both groups united in December, holding their first official gathering of 31 participants who shared in community through a holiday potluck and gingerbread house competition. Together, they outlined a year of learning and action. In January 2025, the ministry hosted Claire Lane from the Anti-Hunger and Nutrition Coalition for an educational
leaders trained, 90+ community members listened to St. Leo's Food Justice Ministry formed!
session, living out their commitment to learning. Later that month, 13 members participated in the first servicelearning retreat at Food Connection to deepen their understanding of food insecurity and to prepare for Hunger Action Day. The ministry continued to host service-learning retreats at different food justice nonprofits each month to develop a broad sense of the issue of food scarcity in Tacoma and provide opportunities for more parishioners to be involved.
On February 24, 2025, St. Leo’s led a strong Catholic presence at Hunger Action Day in Olympia, with 37 of the 220 advocates representing Catholic parishes and nonprofits—mostly from St. Leo’s. They advocated for policies including free school meals, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, rent stabilization, and more. From March through July 2025, the ministry remained active through ongoing service-learning days at local food banks and is preparing to host legislative research actions in the fall to be better prepared for the 2026 Hunger Action Day.
South Seattle Parish Family
During spring 2024, the South Seattle Parish Family partnered with the IPJC to revitalize its justice committee. The project aimed to identify critical justice issues, uncover new leaders, and outline collective action.
Community leaders were invited to form a leadership team, which 10 parish leaders joined, representing various ministries and cultural groups. In May, IPJC staff provided a house meeting training to the leadership team with a vision for a robust listening campaign in the community.
Community leaders hosted 13 house meetings engaging over 90 participants, including youth/young adults, Laotian, Hispanic/Latino, Vietnamese communities, and St. Vincent De Paul neighbors. Notes were then aggregated and coded for themes, and the leadership team held two rounds of Conversations in the Spirit to discern critical community issues. A summary report is being finalized to inform the ongoing Partners in the Gospel process as the parish family discerns its future identity and structure.
Above: Hunger Action Day in Olympia, WA
SPRING BENEFIT
Place of Belonging
The evening of celebration embodied the spirit of community, justice, and belonging. Thanks to the incredible generosity of so many, we exceeded our goal of $120,000 raising over $123,000! There were many powerful moments from the gathering, a few highlights include:
Former intern and event emcee, Sydney Leardi, welcoming the community with warmth and humor, sharing how IPJC became a place where she could be her most authentic self.
Powerful testimonies from Yuliana Chaparro, Sr. Susan Wells, Grace MacLeod, and Layla Schueneman — each story a testament to the transformative work happening across our programs.
We honored Marin Aguila (pictured low right) with the St. Thérèse of Lisieux Young Activist Award and celebrated the prophetic leadership of Patricia Repikoff and Victoria Ries (pictured below) with the Sr. Thea Bowman Award.
Thank you to all that attended, generously supported, and made the event a success!
JULY
2024–JUNE 2025
We are grateful to everyone who has supported IPJC during this past fiscal year through your generous financial contributions!*
ORGANIZATIONS
Adorers of the Blood of ChristU.S. Region JPIC
Adrian Dominican Sisters
Archdiocese of Seattle
Bellarmine College Preparatory
Benedictine Sisters of Cottonwood, Idaho
Benedictine Sisters of Lacey
Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Black Catholic Advisory Circle
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington
Church of the Holy SpiritSocial Action Ministry
Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace
Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose
Dominican Sisters of Racine
Dominican Sisters of San Rafael
Faber Jesuit Community
Holy Names Academy
Holy Spirit Parish, Kent Jesuits West
Microsoft Corporation
NE Seattle CatholicsAssumption -Our Lady of the Lake-St. Catherine of Siena Parish FamilySt. Therese-St. Joseph
Peace Health-Mission Integration
Seattle Preparatory School
Seattle University Campus Ministry
Sinsinawa Dominicans
Sisters of Charity of the BVM
Sisters of Providence, EmilieGamelin Mission Fund
Sisters of Providence, Mother Joseph Province
Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
Sisters of St. Francis of Redwood City
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon
Sisters of the Holy Family
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary,
U.S.-Ontario Province
Sisters of the Presentation, San Francisco
Society of Helpers
Society of the Holy Child Jesus
Society of the Sacred Heart
South Seattle Family Catholic Parishes
St. James Cathedral
St. Luke Parish
Tacoma Dominican Community & Associates
Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union
Washington State Catholic Conference
INDIVIDUALS
Joanne Ackerman
Alexander Aguila
Evangelina Aguilar
Kathy & Guy Alloway
Karen Allvin
Madeline Ancelard
Mary Ann Ashe
Trudie Atkinson
Maureen Augusciak
Dee & Patrick Bader
Scott Bailey
Mary Fran & Art Barkshire
Mary Anne Barnett
Patrick Barredo
David Batchelder
Marianne & Jenni Abbott-Bayardi
Patty Beattie, OP
Mary Lee Becker
Robert Beiser
Joan & Sam Bell
Judith Benkert, OP
Mary Ellen Bennett
Molly & Andy Beresford
Diane Bixler
Brigette Blair
Jack Blume
Terri Bobzien Herinckx
Barbara & Gordon Bollinger
Andrew Bond
Sister Sharon Bongiorno, FSPA
Janyce Bouta, SNJM
Patty Bowman
Monica Bradley
Larry and Jeanette Brixius
La Verne B. Brown
Mary Brown
Christina Brugman
Elizabeth Ann Buchanan
Cynthia Bundi
Mary Burggraff
Delphine Busch
Judy Byron, OP
Mary Calderon
Sharon Callahan
Pat & Julie Callahan
Kathleen Callaway
Janet Callis
Amalia Camacho, CSJP
Michael & Michele Carleton
Valerie & Gordon Carlton
Ann Carson
Kate Carter
Kate & Bob Chambers
Pamela Chiesa
JoAn Choi
Joe & Yolanda Cifuentes-Hiss
Elaine Clark
Celeste Clavel, OSF
Carol Colleran
Kathy Colombo
Wayne Connell
Robert & Ernestine Cooms
Virginia & Larry Cooper
Joseph Cospito
Dot Courtis
Laura Cryan
Ray Daoust
Charlotte Davenport, CSJP
Yvonne de Turenne, SNJM
Mary Delateur
Kathleen Delbecq
Lisa Dennison
Judy Desmarais, SP
Maria DeSouza
Judy Dirks
Mary Ann Dixon, OP
Elizabeth Dohoney
Michaela Dolina
Carol Donahue
Mary Ellen & Tom Donnelly
Shelley Dooley
Denny & Joan Duffell
Mary Duffy, OP
John E. Dunn
James Eblen
Sheila Edwards
Daniel Eiben
Jean Eilers
Kathy Ellestad
Kathleen Emry
James & Maureen Evermann
Sr. M. Pius Fahlstrom, OSF
William Farmer
Katherine & John Farrell
Christine Farrell
Jo Anne Felton
Margie Ferstl
Brenda Fincher
Tesa Fitzgerald, CSJ
Michael Fitzpatrick, SJ
Carol Fleming, OP
Paula & Bruce Foreman
Susan Fox
Susan Francois, CSJP
Dan Frei
Trish Gaine
Willa & Robert Gaines
Eileen Gannon, OP
Mary Lila Gary
Carol & David Gavareski
Anthony & Josephine Gnanarajah
Marcos Gonzales
Cele Gorman, OP
Shaughn Gorman & Kathryn Kurtz
Diane Grabowski
Elizabeth & Stephen Guss
Bertha Haas
Peg Haggerty
John & Silvana Hale
Mary Ellen Haley
Jeanne Hall
Elizabeth Hansen
Molly Harmon
Kelsey Harrington
Barbara Harrington
Dennis & Lorraine Hartmann
Mary Hartrich
Maureen Hawkins
Linda Haydock, SNJM
Lyn Head
Kay Heberling, SNJM
Lorene Heck, OP
Marie & Dale Hedden
Ginny Heinitz
Mary Kay Helmon
Fr. Bill Heric
Tom & Rose Hesselbrock
Maureen Hiam
Kelly Hickman
Carolyn & John Hickman
Pat & Elizabeth Higgins
Tanya Higgins
Judith Hightower
Chris Hillman
Mary & Mark Hillman
Claire Hirschi
Emily Hitchens
Judith Holter
Mary Kay Homan
Patricia Hoppa
Sukyi Hur, CSJP
Benneth Husted
Allison Hutchinson
Pat Iwata
Jude Jackson
Ann L Jarboe
Margaret Johnson
Chris Jowell
Mary Kahle
Ed & Linda Kaiel
Nancy & John Kaye
Larry Keil
Jennifer Kelly
Patrick Kennedy
Susan Marie Kenney
Pat Kenney
Patricia & John Kennish
Jim Keogh & Nancy Kibler Keogh
Wende & James Keyes
Katherine A. Kilbourne
Victoria Kill
Judy Killion
Kathleen Kirschner
Stacy & Alan Klibanoff
Mary Ann Knowles
Mary Catherine Kolb
Diana & Richard Koob
Donna M. Korba
Kim Kovalik
Mimi Krsak
Kathy Krueger
Maureen Kures
Dawna & Jim Lahti
JP Lambert
Gerlinde Lamer
Andrea Langeland
Louise Lansberry
Katherine Laskey
Ned & Pam Laskowski
Suzanne Lee
Michael & Tecla Legge
Patty & Dave Leinweber
Sharon Lemire
Kathy & Max Lewis
Molly Linden
Carmel Little, CSJP
Alan Lopez & Sarah
Pericich-Lopez
Sharon & Lloyd Lowe
Betty Lucas
Shelagh Lustig
Barb Luxenberg
Gabriella Maertens
Anne Marie Maguire
Erin Maguire
Tom Mailhot
Mary Mallon-Behrens
Paula Marano
Nancy Mariano
Kari Marino
Martin Family Foundation
Ardine Martinelli
Linda Maser, CSJ
Lisa Matchette
Sandra Matthews
Karen Matthews
Kate & Ralph Maughan
Cissy McLane
Joseph J McCarthy, O. Carm.
Philomena McCarthy, OP
Pat McColly
Marie McCormick & Adam Niblick
Pat McCrann, SNJM
Barb McGrath
Loretta McIver
Greg McNabb
Anne McNamara, OSF
Judy & Tim McNamara
Nick & Mary Mele
Muriel & Ron Mendonca
Sherry Mendoza
Jilma Meneses
Patty Metzger
Joan Michaels
Marcia Milani
Robin Miranda
Monica Moffat, SNJM
William Moisant
Sheila & Stan Moon
Tess Morales
John & Kathy Morefield
Sue Moreland
Cathy Murray & Vince Herberholt
Coralie Muzzy, CSJP
Toni Napoli
Jane Nelson
Terri Nelson
Marilyn Newton
Janet Nickolaus
Lydia Nikolaisen, SNJM
Bob & Jeanne Nixon
Kathy Noether
Eileen Norris
Cathy Nugent
Donna Lee & William O’Connell
Kathleen O’Connor & Heidi Erdmann
Jim & Young O’Hanlon
Carole Oesterhaus
Natch Ohno, SJ
Pamela Olson
Keith Orchard
Mary O'Reilly
Carla & Joe Orlando
Marnie O'Sullivan
Catherine Pages
Jessica Palmer
Melissa Parisi
Aleah Patulot
Frances Pavlas Bose
JoAnne Paxton
Gary & Georgia Pericich
Florence Peterschmidt
Brian & Anna Peterson
Rita Phillips
Susan Picht
Judy Pigott
Nancy Pineda-Madrid
Gene Poore, OP
Thomas J. Price
Barbara Puigh
Lauren Pusich
Annette Quayle
Stephanie Ragland
Rochelle Ramirez
Cecilia A Ranger, SNJM
Stephanie Read
Ken & Linda Reid
John & Maureen Reid
Patricia Repikoff
Jane Rickenbaugh
Mary Ann Riedeman
Victoria Ries & Sam Saracino
Mary Francis Ries
Linda Riggers, SNJM
Kathy Riley
Val Ritchie
Anna Robertson
Jeanie & Tom Robinson
Carmen Rodriguez
Tom Rowan
Daniel Roy
Bill Rumpf
Eve Rumpf-Sternberg
Joe & Paula Rutt
Will Rutt & Elizabeth Bayardi
Judy Ryan, SNJM
Rev. Michael Ryan
Thomasina C. Sacrison
Rebecca Saldana
Nancy Salvadalena
Sue Samet
Paul Sampson
Betty Sanders
Daniel Saracino
Kitty & Roger Schiltz
Mary & Jim Schmidt
Randy Shay
Maureen Sheridan
Dianne Shiner
Dolores Shortal
Pat Siggs
Mark & Lara Simmons
Susan Simpson
Floricita Siong
Ben & Olivia Skwiercz
Mary Slater, SNJM
Laura & Tom Slavin
Paul Snow
Jane Snyder
Nancy Sorenson
Gerald Spatz
Sam & Winnie Sperry
Nicole St. Hilaire
Terry Staeheli
Phyllis Lee Standefer
Gerald Stanley
Jovanna Stein, OP
Kathy Stein, CSJ
Candace Stickney
Christine Still, OSF
Flora Stratten
Brenda Stratton
Jim Sullivan
Charlotte & Earl Sutherland
Judy & Dennis Sweeney
Erin Swezey
Joan Talbert
Fritzi Taylor
Evelyn Tangalin
Suzanne Thiel
Dorothy Thielk, OP
Jim & Jan Thomas
Hilaire Thomas
Avery Thompson
Mary Thorne, CSJP
Julie Tilghman
Diane Tomhave
Aileen Trainor, CSJP
Judy Vitzthum
Deanna Rose Von Bargen, RSCJ
Julie Wagner
Mary Escobar Wahl
Mary Kay Walsh
Irene Ward
Alison Warp
Peggy Warren, OP
Mary Ann Waterman
Eric Watson, SJ
Rebecca Weber
Mary Ellen & James Weber
Anna Weisner, SNJM
Annie Welch
Susan Wells, SNJM
Arnadene Welton Bean, SNJM
Joseph Wenzl
Diane S. & Bill Whalen
Emeline Whalon
Toni Whitfield
Patricia Whitney
Ryan & Elysse Wiggins
Kim Williams
Kathy Wilmering
Mary Winter
Jean Withrow
Dcn. Steve Wodzanowski
Kathleen Wolf
Ann Marie Wood, OP
Nancy & Pete Wright
Shirley Wright
Joyce & Randy Yates
Pat Yearian
Georgia Yianakulis, SNJM
James & Patricia Young
Gail Young
Polly Young & Heidi Gemperle
Linda Zaugg
IN MEMORY OF
Thomas Joseph Allsopp
Pat Caraher
John Helmon
Patrick Higgins
Mary Pat Murphy, OP
Peg Murphy, OP
Tim Snow
Joseph & Josephine Stein
Beth Taylor, CSJP
IN HONOR OF
Archdiocese of Seattle
Judy Byron, OP
Darren & Amy Desmarais & her mother Nancy
Sr. Carmel Gregg, CSJP
Linda Haydock, SNJM
Kelly Hickman
Max Lewis, CSJP/A
Sr. Sharon Park, OP
Patricia Repikoff
Victoria Ries
Sisters of the Presentation
All those who struggle and work for human rights and justice for all.
Building community
Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center
1216 NE 65th St Seattle, WA 98115-6724
Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center
INTERCOMMUNITY PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER
ESTABLISHED IN 1991
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Maureen Augusciak, Vice Chair
Yulianna Chaparro
Betty Devereux, A-OP*
Denny Duffel, A-CSJP
Brenda Fincher
Annie Fox*
Marcos Gonzales, Secretary
Margarita Hernandez, SP*
John Hickman, Chair
Erin Maguire
Kathleen Nolan, OP*
Mary Slater, SNJM*, Treasurer
Jessica Valdez
Kim Williams
* Also on the Board of Members
BOARD OF MEMBERS
Charlotte Davenport, CSJP, Linda Riggers, SNJM, Christine Still, OSF
AMOS EDITORIAL BOARD
Don Clemmer
Sheila Edwards
Cassidy Klein
Nick Mele
Andrea Mendoza
Will Rutt
Emily Sanna - Editor
STAFF
Sheila Edwards
Timnit Ghermay
Gabit Jeakle
Sarah Pericich-Lopez
Will Rutt
SPONSORING COMMUNITIES
Adrian Dominican Sisters
Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace Jesuits West
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, US-Ontario Province
Sisters of Providence, Mother Joseph Province
Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
Tacoma Dominicans
AFFILIATE COMMUNITIES
Benedictine Sisters of Cottonwood, Idaho
Benedictine Sisters of Lacey
Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel
Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose
Dominican Sisters of Racine
Dominican Sisters of San Rafael
Sinsinawa Dominicans
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sisters of St. Francis of Redwood City
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon
Sisters of the Holy Family
Sisters of the Presentation, San Francisco
Society of Helpers
Society of the Holy Child Jesus
Society of the Sacred Heart
Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union
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Thank you to Margarita Hernandez, SP (above left) who offered great insight into supporting diverse communities throughout her time on the board. We also said goodbye to Kathy Nolan, OP (right) who served over 6 years on IPJC’s board bringing a spirit of gentility, steadiness, and affirmation. Thank you both for your service to the organization!
Welcome back to IPJC leadership, Judy Byron, OP, (above left) who will be representing the Adrian Dominicans on the Board of Directors and Members. We are excited to have your wisdom, vision, and experience on the team. Christine Still, OSF (above middle) has also joined IPJC’s Board of Members, bringing years of ministry experience and a passion for justice. Erin Maguire (above right) has also stepped onto the Board of Directors as an at large member, bringing a wealth of direct services experience and deep commitment to Catholic Social Teaching in praxis.
