Staff

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Jeanette Rodriguez, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Religion and the Personality Sciences

Executive Director of ICTC
Malcolm and Mari Stamper Endowed Chair in Catholic Intellectual and Cultural Traditions
Professor, Theology and Religious Studies

Phone: 206-220-8271

Building/Room: LEML659

Jeanette Rodriguez is a professor at Seattle University and teaches in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. Rodriguez is the author of several books and articles concentrated in the areas of U.S. Hispanic theology, theologies of liberation, peacebuilding, and women’s spirituality. Her works include Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment among Mexican American Women (1994); Stories We Live (1996); co-editor with Dr. Maria Pilar Aquino and Dr. Daisy Machado of A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology (2002); co-authored with Dr. Ted Fortier on Cultural Memory: Resistance, Faith and Identity (2007); and A Clan Mother’s Call (2017). She has served as a board member for the Academy of Hispanic Theologians in the United States, and as Vice Chair for Pax Christi USA. Rodriguez holds a Ph. D. in Religion and the Personality Sciences from the Graduate Theological Union (1990), Berkeley, California.

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Jessica Palmer, MA

MA, Transformational Leadership, Seattle University
MA, Interdisciplinary Humanities, California State University
BFA, Central Washington University

Associate Director

Phone: 206-220-8270

Building/Room: LEML659

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Estefania Kendall

BBA, Universidad de los Llanos

Senior Administrative Assistant

Phone: 206-220-8079

Building/Room: LEML 659

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Sophia Cofinas

Double Major in Public Affairs and International Studies, Seattle University

Communication and Program Assistant

Building/Room: LEML659

Sophia is a first-year student from San Diego, CA. She is also involved in Student Government at Seattle University, and she sits on the Laudato Si Sustainability Committee. She is excited to be working in this office and learning more about what ICTC can bring to students at SU.