BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT/CO FOUNDER: ANITA S. DUCKOR
Anita S. Duckor is a CSJ Consociate from Minneapolis, MN. Anita’s ministry work includes being on the CSJ Ministries Inc Board, Executive Committee, and the Governance Chair, serves on several CSJ projects/committees and served on the Consociate Leadership Collaborative, Consociate Council. Anita is a business consultant who has helped transform a variety of business, nonprofit and government entities.
VICE PRESIDENT: SISTER ANGELA FAUSTINA
Sister Angela Faustina is a CSJ Sister from Los Angeles, CA. She has an MA in Philosophy and Systematic Theology and a minor is Music. A former member of the Sisters of St. Joseph Carondelet Leadership Team, Los Angeles Province, she is currently working with the Los Angeles Archdiocese Task Force on Anti-Racism.
SECRETARY: MARY GUDITIS
Mary Guditis, Binghamton Region CSJA Coordinator, hails from Chenango Forks located in south-central NY. As a public employee at the Department of Social Services (35 years), Mary held varied positions and retired as Director of Staff Development. Mary holds a M.A. in Social Science, a Master’s Certificate in Non-Profit Administration (Binghamton University) and an Advanced Certificate in Pastoral Studies (Loyola University, NOLA). Mary enjoys spending time with family and travelling with her husband Chuck.
TREASURER: JILL GARCIA
Jill García is a CSJ Consociate from Minneapolis, MN. Jill has been a member of the St. Paul Province Consociate Council from 2018 to 2024. Jill is a College of St. Catherine (currently University of St. Catherine) Alumna, where the CSJ charism became embedded in her vocational pursuit. Using her M.A. in Public Policy, she embraced her affinity for using statute and regulations to promote increased opportunities for marginalized populations. Jill has over 20 years of experience securing government funding for permanent supportive housing programs. Turning her attention to energy conservation and environmental responsibility, she is currently Energy Contracts Coordinator in the Division of Energy Resources at the Minnesota Department of Commerce.
BOARD MEMBER: SISTER MARY LOU DOLAN
Mary Lou Dolan is an Albany Province Sister of St. Joseph. With degrees in Biology and Cell Biology, she has worked as a cytotechnologist in several clinical laboratories, and has taught biology at The College of Saint Rose in Albany NY. She studied and served as Staff at Spirit Earth, an Ecological Spirituality Center in Boston and in Saugerties, NY. She then developed, administered and taught in the M.A. in Earth Literacy at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College in Terre Haute IN.
BOARD MEMBER: SISTER JO ANN GEARY
Sister Jo Ann Geary is a CSJ Sister from the St. Louis Province, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She is a nurse, clinician and practitioner at a variety of convents, hospitals, nonprofits, and 20 years working at the Uganda Project, Gulu, Uganda.
BOARD MEMBER/CO FOUNDER: ANNE HANNAHAN
Anne Hannahan is a CSJ Consociate from Saint Paul, MN. She is a retired Nurse and Psychologist with a focus on Integrative Medicine. She has over thirty years of experience working with people affected by serious illness. Anne and her husband reside in Woodbury, MN nearby her four children and eight grandchildren.
BOARD MEMBER: SISTER LINDA NEIL
Linda Neil, is a CSJ Sister from the Albany Province. Linda holds a Masters Degree from the Earth Literacy Program at St. Mary of the Woods College, IN and a Masters in Religious Studies from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. She is co-director of St. Joseph’s Place, a place for hospitality in the Hamilton Hill Neighborhood of Schenectady. Linda also gives presentations and retreats in her ministry of Encountering Earth. She is an avid hiker and naturalist.
BOARD MEMBER: SISTER THERESE SHERLOCK
CSJ Therese Sherlock is a Sister from the St. Paul Province. She has an MA in Library Science and an MDiv from the St. Paul Seminary. She is co-publisher at Good Ground Press.
EMERITUS BOARD MEMBERS
SISTER MAUREEN FREEMAN
Sister Maureen Freeman is a CSJ Sister from the St. Louis Province,
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She spent 10 years in Peru and 3 years in the outer banks of Alaska. She is a current member of the Sisters of St. Joseph Carondelet, St. Louis Province Leadership Team.
DOROTHY HATHWAY
Dorothy Hathway is a CSJ Associate from Richford, New York. She has a B.S. in Cultural Studies, an M.A. in Social Sciences from Binghamton University and has 37 years of professional experiences in rural services, child and partner abuse prevention, military family support and service and Native American advocacy. She is retired from the Brofenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell University.
CSJ Associate, OCDS
ANN SHIELDS
Ann Shields is a CSJ Consociate from Bloomington, MN. She has a B.A. in Geology from St. Catherine University and has 38 years with different responsibilities in the Occupational Safety and Health area at Hennepin County. She is active in numerous ministries of the St. Paul Province and an active civic volunteer. CSJ Consociate.
GROWING COMMUNITY ROOTS ADVISORY BOARD
COMMUNITY ORGANIZER CONSULTANT
Sister Rosita Aranita, CSJ, HONOLULU, HI
LEGAL SERVICES
John Gries, CSJ Consociate, EDINA, MN
Gries Lenhardt Michenfelder Allen, P.L.L.P.
DIGITAL MEDIA SPECIALISTS
Alyssa Howells, MINNEAPOLIS, MN