Jeanette Rodriguez, Ph.D.

The members of Voices For Renewal are pleased to host Jeanette Rodriguez, Ph.D., in Fort Worth, Saturday, April 27, 2013. She is Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies of Seattle University. She is a U.S. Hispanic Latina theologian, author of Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment Among Mexican American Women. She co-authored Cultural Memory: Resistance, Faith and Identity.

Inspired by faith and the theologies of liberation, Dr. Rodriguez directs her personal and professional commitments to the service of peace-building and justice. This commitment takes the form of understanding, articulating and offering the insights of the lived-faith experience of U.S. Latinos and Latinas to the larger socio-political theological enterprise.

Additionally Dr Rodriguez is a licensed clinician dealing with family systems, grief, trauma and is a diversity trainer. She has served as Vice-chair of the National Board of Pax Christi and in 2002 she was the recipient of the U. S. Catholic Award.