Year Joined MKLM: 1990
Country: Chile
City: Santiago
Focus: Education, Healthcare
Project(s): Women's Theology Project
People Served: More than 3,000 Women
Project Goal(s): Women's Theology Project-Con-Spirando; Capacitar, Chile, LA-Holistic Health Education and Spirituality |  |
Personal Data
Judy joined MKLM with her two sons, Peter and Benjamin, in 1990. Judy is originally from Massillon, Ohio and has lived and worked in Latin America since 1970. She was a member of the Cleveland Mission Team to El Salvador (1970-72), she worked in the Peruvian Andes (1973-76), and she worked in Chile with the American Friends Service Committee (1977-81). Judy returned to Peru (Lima) as an editor of Noticias Aliadas/Latinamerica Press (1982-89) and then went to Chile with Maryknoll in 1991. Both of her sons, now 28 and 26, were born in Chile. Judy has a doctorate in Feminist Theology from the San Francisco Seminary and has Masters Degrees in Economics from the New School of Social Research in NYC and in Spanish from the Universidad Internacional de Mexico. Judy is the author of Eco-feminism in Latin America (Orbis, 2006). Current Ministry
Currently Judy has two primary ministries: Con-spirando and Capacitar-Chile, LA. For more than 13 years now, the Con-spirando Collective has nourished feminist and eco-feminist theological debate in Latin America through its quarterly journal, Con-spirando: Revista latinoamericana de ecofeminismo, espiritualidad y teología (as of 2005, they have published 52 issues), as well as other publications; through its workshops, seminars, lectures and radio shows and yearly cycle of rituals; and through its annual 10-day Eco-feminist Summer School. Capacitar-Chile has been working for the past 12 years developing formation and training programs that contribute to bettering the quality of life of poor women, with an emphasis in health. During this period they have developed processes that they have used with more than 3,000 women. Specifically, Capacitar Chile works with: Women leaders in grassroots organizations with the ability to repeat the experience in their communities; Women religious living in poor neighborhoods and who work with women; People belonging to organized groups of discriminated minorities (sex, ethnic, sexual orientation, social class, age, etc.); Pastoral agents belonging to different denominations who are open to processes of change; Professional people who work directly with women in different areas (education, religion, legal, mental health, health in general, etc.); People working with AIDS patients; And people living with HIV/AIDS who are organized in groups. |
