Angie McParland is a Kentucky native who has called New England home for most of her adult life. She has worked in ministry for more than twenty years across campus and parish settings in Nashville, Boston, and Rhode Island. From 2007 to 2016, she served as campus minister and Catholic chaplain to Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and as Catholic chaplain at Bentley University in Waltham, MA from 2016 to 2020. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Justice Team of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, working on both state and federal issues of gun violence, immigration, poverty and economics, racism, and climate, among others. She is a co-founder of Nuns Against Gun Violence and a proud member of cohort 5 of Mercy Global's Emerging Leaders Fellowship.
She earned a B.A. in English and Religion from Centre College and a Master of Divinity at Vanderbilt Divinity School as well as a certificate in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality. She lives in Providence, RI with her three children: Oliver, Lorelai, and Eamon.
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