About Speaker

Enhancing Jesuit Education Through 
Multicultural, Feminist & Ignatian Pedagogies

Dr. Pamela Taylor 

Dr. Pamela Taylor is an associate professor in the College of Education at Seattle University. She has held academic positions at the University of Southern Indiana, Mississippi State University, and the City Colleges of Chicago. She is a member of the Planning and Scholarship Committee of the Washington Alliance for Black School Educators 2005 Conference, an advisory board member of Seattle University’s Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, among membership on numerous committees involving social justice. Dr. Taylor’s research interests center on multicultural education and social justice, and she is a frequent speaker and contributor to academic journals on these topics.

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Holly Schapker

Holly Schapker, a Cincinnati artist, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Xavier University in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in painting. For ten years, she continued her education by studying under Frank McElwain and Michael Scott, whose influences and creative processes have a strong focus on plein air paintings. She has taught Beginning, Advanced, and Thesis Painting at Xavier.

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Panelists: 

Dr. Julia Brumbaugh
Religious Studies, Chair
Regis University

Dr. Adam Clark 
Associate Professor, Theology Department, Africana Studies 
and the Institute for Spirituality and Social Justice
Xavier University 

Fr. Tom Hughson SJ
Professor Emeriti, Theology
Marquette University

Dr. Bren Ortega Murphy
Communication Studies/ Women Studies and Gender Studies
Loyola University Chicago

Speakers:

Dr. Linda Schoenstedt
Director of Faculty Programs
Center for Mission and Identity
Sports Studies
Xavier University

Dr. Margo Heydt
Chair, Social Work
Xavier University