Teresa is a Pastoral Minister at Visitation Catholic Church in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph who has also ministered in Houston, Jefferson City, and Boston; after earning a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Theology. For over 25 years her academic and personal focus has been in religious literacy, interfaith dialogue and peacemaking; beginning with combating anti-Semitism within the Church. She has served on nearly a dozen interfaith commissions and is a vowed Lay Associate of the Congregation of Notre Dame de Sion. Through this work she regularly confronts racism and xenophobia through allyship and the religious education she directs at the parish level; including being a founding board member of Kansas City Catholics Addressing Racism established in 2021.
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