JustFaith Presenter Bios

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Jack Jezreel

Jack Jezreel holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Religion from Furman University (summa cum laude) and a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Notre Dame. He spent six years in a Catholic Worker community, providing basic and emergency services to the homeless in Colorado before directing his attention to transformative education, mostly focused on how to encourage people of Catholic background to be engaged in outreach and social change.

Jack has over twenty years of experience working in parish ministry and spent eight of those years at a Catholic parish in Louisville, Kentucky developing a conversion-based justice formation program, JustFaith, which has had extraordinary results and has been recognized nationally as a potent strategy for empowering social ministry. The three largest poverty-focused Catholic organizations in the country – Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Campaign for Human Development and Catholic Relief Services are partners and promoters of JustFaith. Over ten thousand people in over ninety dioceses have participated.

Jack currently is Director of JustFaith Ministries, a nonprofit organization that creates justice formation materials. In 1995, he was recognized for his work with the Peace and Justice Award from the Archdiocese of Louisville. In February 2006, he received the Harry A. Fagan Award at the Annual Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, D.C., for his working in promoting social justice. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, is married with Maggie, and they have three daughters.

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Dan Driscoll has worked with parishes, schools, and community organizations on spirituality and justice issues for over 15 years. He has been a social worker, parish youth minister, teacher, diocesan director of parish social ministry, and diocesan director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. He worked as an editor at Ave Maria Press in South Bend, Indiana for four years, and is the founder of Good Shepherd Montessori School, where he currently serves as head of school.

Dan has facilitated workshops and spoken on peace and justice issues at the local, state, and national levels. He served on the national leadership team for the parish social ministry section of Catholic Charities USA and has served on the national board for JustFaith.

A graduate of The Catholic University of America, Dan holds a master of divinity from the University of Notre Dame. Dan authored several articles on prayer and family life, and his first book, Daddyhood: This Changes Everything!, was published in 2002.