A life-long Catholic who believes deeply in the human right to housing, Patty dedicated her career to ending homelessness and expanding the availability of affordable housing in the nation’s capital. A co-founder of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless in 1987, she served as its executive director for more than 30 years. Since 2000, she also has been working to build new generations of justice activists, as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law where she teaches a seminar on homelessness and poverty.

Over his career, Patrick has taught college students, spent hours listening to people in food-access lines, developed impactful partnerships with nonprofits and foundations, sat with kids struggling with their gender identity, worked in the Pentagon as a customer experience strategist, and even lived with monks as a novice. He is a passionate advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, deeply committed to the catholic tradition, and an active Episcopalian. Patrick and his husband, also named Patrick, live in Washington, D.C.

A longtime advocate for the Catholic social justice tradition in American public life, Steve currently is the Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, to which he was appointed by President Biden. He retired from The Catholic University of America after a tenure of more than thirty years. He and his wife, Suzanne, are very lucky to live near their daughters and grandchildren in the nation’s capital.