Meet Sister Carolyn Giera, OSF
From:
Hamtramck, MI
First Profession:
1962
Ministries:
Sister taught grades 3 – 8 for nine years, served as School Psychologist for catholic schools in Toledo and Minnesota, and worked as a County Prevention Specialist in MI. In Community, she served in Formation Ministry and, in 1992, was twice elected to Community Council and then Minister General. She currently serves as Transitions Coordinator and continues to work for social justice. Her ministry has taken her to L ’Arche in Alabama, Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala and Tanzania, and, most recently, to work with refugees at the Texas border.
Important Life Lesson: “I have learned the beauty in that wherever you are and whoever you are with, you are home.”
Additional Names/Nicknames
Ann Joseph
Sister Carolyn Giera and Mary Ann Gawelek, president of Lourdes University, enjoy a conversation at the Centennial reception.
