Mary Joel Curcio

Mary Joel Curcio is a Sister of the Living Word with headquarters in the Archdiocese of Chicago. She has served her religious community in a variety of capacities such as congregational leadership, and treasurer. Her education has been in teaching, pastoral ministry and social services, and she holds a Doctor of Ministry. She has ministered in inner-city Detroit and Chicago where she worked in poverty programs and parish ministry, and for the past 23 years has ministered in rural Mississippi as director of development for the only Catholic high school in Jackson. For the past 13 years she has served as program manager with Sacred Heart Southern Missions, supervising and program development for social services and economic development. In my year of retirement I volunteer in a literacy program and at a community meal program. She currently lives in Holly Springs, Mississippi.