Jocelyn A. Sideco designed and founded Contemplatives in Action, a New Orleanian ministry committed to a faith that does justice. She created and developed a volunteer program for Jesuit affiliates in response to Hurricane Katrina. She is a certified diversity and cultural competency trainer with the national Multi-Cultural Institute. She has served as resident chaplin at Loyola University, New Orleans and Pastoral Associate for Relief Ministries for the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus. Ms. Sideco received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Santa Clara University, and a Master of Theological Studies from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.
When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, SCU alumna, Jocelyn A. Sideco, had no idea her faith, friends, skill-set and current circumstances would bring her to New Orleans. While helping Catholic Charities’ Operation Helping Hands develop opportunities for volunteerism and coordinating college, high school, parish groups for the Jesuits of New Orleans, Ms Sideco founded Contemplatives in Action, a non-profit ministry in New Orleans whose purpose is to establish an urban retreat center to create a space for a thoughtful response to the current situation in the South. Through storytelling and humor, she will explore the invitation that our Catholic faith and Ignatian Spirituality offer in this space between contemplation and action.
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