by Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON -- Sr. Anne-Louise Nadeau, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, has been named director of programs for Pax Christi USA in Washington.
Her responsibilities will include developing, implementing and overseeing Pax Christi programs related to the spirituality of nonviolence and peacemaking; disarmament, demilitarization and reconciliation with justice; economic and interracial justice in the United States; and global restoration.
Nadeau worked most recently as case management supervisor for the Families That Work program at My Sister's Place Women's Center in Baltimore. She also worked extensively with young adults and adult learners at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., while serving in campus ministry, as director of the Personal Counseling Center and later as associate dean of students.
She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology/social work from the now-closed Annhurst College in South Woodstock, Conn., and a master's in pastoral ministry and counseling from Emmanuel College in Boston.
"In my previous work I had the privilege of accompanying pregnant, homeless women and children and experienced firsthand the unjust structures that keep people begging for what they need to live with dignity," Nadeau said. "Our programs must address the needs of real people who daily struggle in a violence and inhuman environment to claim what is rightfully theirs."
