Leadership

Women’s Ordination Conference Staff

Kate
McElwee

Executive Director

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Katie
Lacz

Program Director

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National Board of Directors 

Bernadette Raspante, President
Barb Kozee, Vice President
John Barbieri
Matthew Casey-Pariseault
Nancy Fitzgerald
Clare Kemmerer
Anne Latour
Dr. Terry Schultz
Sara Sullins
Robert Yohanan

Advisory Board Members 

Regina Bannan
Soraya Deen
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Teresa Forcades, OSB
Jeannine Gramick, SL
Celine Goessl, SCSC
Mary E. Hunt
Andrea Johnson
Theresa Kane, RSM
Martha Ann Kirk, CCVI
Jamie Manson
Anthony Padovano
Dianne Willman


In memoriam: Donna Quinn, OP; Harry Halloran, Jr; Rosemary Radford Ruether

WOC is relentless in its advocacy for people of all genders called to ordination.
This work must continue so that one day no young child will think that their call to ordination has to be squashed simply because of their gender

Jennifer O’Malley

No single organization witnesses to the urgency and importance of full equality than the Women’s Ordination Conference.

Anthony Padovano

WOC has been an enduring, faithful presence in our Church community and I am proud and privileged to be one with such a community.

Our very existence, our presence stands as a spirited movement that has been central to the renewal efforts of Vatican II in the 20th Century. WOC has been a part of two centuries; may it continue to perdure in the spirit of prophecy.

Theresa Kane, RSM