Twenty-two Holy Cross graduates are currently serving in locations around the world as Jesuit volunteers. With 16 former Holy Cross students participating in Jesuit Volunteer Corps, the school is the third most-represented college nationwide. An additional six graduates are serving in Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest, which operates independently.
Built on the four core values of social and ecological justice, simple living, community, and spirituality, the JVC and JVC Northwest programs give young men and women the chance to work full time for justice and peace. Participants serve for one or two years, during which time they live among the poor and marginalized and strive to examine and combat social injustice.
Jesuit Volunteers work in hundreds of schools, health clinics, legal clinics, parishes, and non-profit organizations, while those in the Northwest also teach in schools on Native American reservations.
There are currently 340 Jesuit Volunteers living in 49 communities in the United States and six other countries around the world, as well as 141 JVC Northwest participants serving in 20 locales throughout Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.
The following graduates are currently serving as Jesuit Volunteers:
- Christopher Bergan ’11 – Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians, Philadelphia
- Bridget Cass ’10 (second year JV) – So Others Might Eat, Washington, D.C.
- Maria Sun Cavicchi ’11 – Thunder Road Adolescent Treatment Centers, Inc., Oakland, Calif.
- Sara Dyer ’11 – OPCC/Daybreak, Los Angeles
- Brenna Feeley ’11 – St. John’s Shelter for Women and Children, Sacramento, Calif.
- Rebecca Foerg-Spittel ’11 – St. Aloysius School, Harlem, N.Y.
- Mary Kathleen Gliva ’11 – The Northwest Center, Washington, D.C.
- Matt Harper ’11 – Belize City Prison, Belize City, Belize
- Kateleigh Hewins ’09 – Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, Boston
- Nick Keeler ’11 – Catholic Charities, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Maureen McCarty ’09 – Colegio Miguel Pro, Tacna, Peru
- Megan McCormick ’11 – Diocesan Migrant Refugee Services, El Paso, Texas
- Abigail Miller ’11 – Women’s Lunch Place, Boston
- Emily Nassetta ’11 – Chrysalis, Los Angeles
- Meghan Raimondo ’11 – YWCA of Silicon Valley, San Jose, Calif.
- Kristin Rapillo ’11 – Sacred Heart Nativity School, San Jose, Calif.
The following graduates are currently serving as Jesuit Volunteers in the Northwest:
- James Antonio ’09 – House of Charity, Spokane, Wash.
- Kathryn Cody ’11 – St. Labre School, Ashland, Mont.
- Caitlin Lanigan ’11 – Low Income Housing Institute, Urban Rest Stop, Seattle
- Christina Polachi ’11 – Bethel Alternative Boarding School, Bethel, Ala.
- Matt Tysinski ’11 – Real Change, Seattle
- Maggie Wright ’11 – CCC Recuperative Care, Portland, Ore.
