Two new members from the western U.S. joined the CTA national board recently: Amy Sheber Howard of Denver, Colo., and Jeanette Rodriguez of Seattle, Wash. Amy Sheber Howard has been a regional coordinator of Rocky Mountain CTA. She works in the service learning program at the University of Denver, and is pursuing a masters in theology and social change at U.D.-affiliated Iliff School of Theology. She and her husband Jeff are enjoying life with their toddler, Matthew, and expecting a second child in November. At age 28, Amy was an active participant at CTA's recent Next Generation Leadership Weekend in Chicago. She said the weekend reconfirmed her vision of CTA: "people with amazing faith stories, and passionate hope for the future of the Church."

Jeanette Rodriguez chairs the religious studies and theology department at Seattle University, and is past president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the U.S. Born of Ecuadorian parents and raised in New York, she has her Ph.D. from Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., and specializes in Hispanic and U.S. Latina feminist theology and spirituality. She and her husband, Tomas Holguin, have two children, Gabriela, 11, and Joshua, 8. Jeanette was an invited participant at the first conference of the late Cardinal Bernardin's Common Ground Initiative. She is committed to CTA because "I treasure being an adult in the Church I love, and having freedom for dialogue. CTA provides the forum." Jeanette spoke at the 1997 CTA Conference and will speak again this fall on "Mujerista Theology."