Call To Action 50th Anniversary Keynote Announcement

Sr. Simone Campbell

Call To Action is excited to announce that Sr. Simone Campbell will be the keynote speaker for our 50th Anniversary Conference in November.

Sister Simone Campbell (Roman Catholic Sister of Social Service) is a religious leader, attorney, author and recipient of a 2022 Presidential Medal of Freedom (the United States’ highest civilian honor). She has extensive experience in public policy rooted in the lived experiences of people at the economic margins of society. Now she is an Emerson Elder with the Emerson Collective. For 17 years she was executive director of NETWORK, Lobby for Catholic Social Justice and leader of Nuns on the Bus. Her healthcare policy work was seminal in passage of the Affordable Care Act. She has received numerous awards including the “Defender of Democracy Award” from the Parliamentarians for Global Action. Prior to Washington, this native Californian did state advocacy and for 18 years was the founder and lead attorney of the Oakland Community Law Center. In 1995 she was elected the leader of her community the Sisters of Social Service and served in that capacity until 2000. She has written two award winning books A Nun on the Bus (2014) and Hunger for Hope (2020).

For more details about CTA’s conference, click here.

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