Call To Action Welcomes New 20/30 Leadership Team Members
Meet the new members of the 20/30 leadership team!
Ryan Clavelle is from Burlington, Vermont and has spent the last 5 years as a Spanish and Theology teacher in Catholic high schools in Louisiana and Colorado. Ryan graduated from St. Louis University with a B.A in Theology, Spanish and International Studies, with opportunities to study in the Casa de la Solidaridad Program in El Salvador as well as liberation theology in Nicaragua. Afterward, Ryan received an M.Ed through the Alliance for Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame and went on to teach, serve as a hospital chaplain and explore the Jesuit Novitiate. Ryan currently teaches high school and lives in Denver, CO, where he loves to play basketball, listen to jazz, fly fish, and organize young adult Catholics to be a progressive presence in the city.
Vania Ferreira dos Passos was born and raised in Brazil and has been in the USA since 2011. Vania was a nun for almost 8 years and left because she felt she could not fully be who she is and wanted to be more vocal on the issues that she wanted to fight for. Vania was raised in a Community of Basis in Brazil where community and social justice were central part of faith practice. She is passionate about immigration education and reform, LGBT issues and women's participation in the life of the church. Vania will be graduating on December 2015 as a ESOL teacher and is engaged to be married to a most wonderful lady!
Justin Sengstock is a freelance writer focusing on the Catholic Church, a volunteer parish minister in the Chicago area, and a member of 8th Day Center for Justice’s Young Adult Council. He has been involved with Call To Action in various capacities for four years. In addition to writing for CTA 20/30’s Young Adult Catholics blog, Justin is a contributor to the books Hungering and Thirsting for Justice: Real-Life Stories by Young Adult Catholics (ACTA, 2012) and An Irrepressible Hope: Notes from Chicago Catholics (ACTA, 2012). He will be entering graduate school for ministry this fall.
To learn more about the 20/30 young adult community click here.
