2009 Speakers

Rosana Madrigal Ms Madrigal spent 20 years at KLIV-AM/KRTY-FM/KARA-FM, in San Jose, California as a News Reporter, Public Affairs Director, Equal Employment Opportunities Outreach Manager. Rosana re-established and was President of the Silicon Valley Radio and Television Public Affairs Directors. She coordinated monthly Ascertainment Meetings and bi-annual Media Access Workshops. As a news reporter, she covered President Barack Obama’s Inauguration www.obamastreetusa.com.
She attended UC Berkeley

Fr. Nathan Castle, OP Currently pastor of the Catholic Community at Stanford. Previously served as pastor of the Newman Center at Arizona State University

Fr Carl Schlicte, OP is currently the parochial vicar of the Catholic Community at Stanford. He has previously served the University of Oregon

Fr. Estanislao Mikalonis is a diocesan priest currently assigned to St. Athanasius parish as parochial vicar.

2008 Speakers

Fr. Nathan Castle, OP Currently pastor of the Catholic Community at Stanford. Previously served as pastor of the Newman Center at Arizona State University

 

Tobias Wolff, The Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of English at Stanford. Tobias Wolff's books include two novels, The Barracks Thief and Old School; two memoirs, This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army; and three collections of short stories, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, and, most recently, The Night in Question. He has also been the editor of Best American Short Stories, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, and A Doctor's Visit: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, and other magazines and literary journals.

 

Sr. Mary Criscione , RSM, PHD, teaches Religious Studies at Santa Clara University and Notre Dame de Namur University. She earned her doctoral degree in Biblical Studies at GTU, Berkeley, where her dissertation focused on the women characters in Mark’s Gospel. Her work since then continues to attend to the women of early Christianities and what they have to say to us today

2007 Speakers

Fr. Kevin Joyce was born and raised in Alameda, California. He graduated from St. Joseph’s College Seminary in Los Altos with a B.A. in Psychology in 1971. During college he spent his junior year at the University of the Americas in Mexico City in order to gain fluency in Spanish.

Fr. Kevin left the seminary for five years during which time he studied eastern spiritual traditions and meditation, and then pursued a career in music. He rediscovered his priestly vocation while on a long retreat in Switzerland and returned to St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park in 1977. He was ordained a priest in 1980 and has exercised his priestly ministry at St. Catherine’s Parish in Morgan Hill, St. Joseph’s College Seminary, and as pastor of St. Maria Goretti Parish in San José where he served until 2004.

In 1991 Fr. Kevin received a Ph.D. in Spirituality from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where his special interests were the East-West interreligious dialogue and the great Christian spiritual masters. In 2004 he began full-time ministry with SpiritSite, the Catholic spirituality center of the Diocese of San Jose,. For more information go to www.SpiritSite.org.

 

 

John David Pleins: Professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University and is the author of "When
the Great Abyss Opened:  Classic and Contemporary Readings of Noah's
Flood" (Oxford University Press).  He teaches undergraduate courses on the
"Bible and Mythology" as well as graduate courses in pastoral
ministries.  He has done archaeological work in Jordan.

 

Deacon Steven Herrera: Social Justice Immersion Director for the Diocese of San Jose,

Deacon Herrera is also a teacher at Archbishop Mitty High School. He regularly leads justice immersion

programs and will do so again this summer to Fort Apache.

 

Sr. Rebecca Shinas, OP: Director of Adult Spiritual Faith Formation at St. Simon's Parish, Los Altos.

She has a master's from Santa Clara in Pastoral Ministry. She also has recorded 4 CD's of original

compositions of contemplative music.

 

Sr. Patsy Harney, RSM: Runs the Young Adult program at the Friday Taize Prayer Service at Mercy Center, Burlingame,

She has worked hard to bridge the digital divide in the Mission section of San Francisco,  She has also overseen housing programs for the needy at over 90 facilities in the Bay Area.