Catherine Orsborn

• Program Coordinator
• Driscoll South, Suite 1-J
• 303-871-7428
• Catherine.Orsborn@du.edu

Background:

I began as the Program Coordinator for the Social Justice Living and Learning Community in August 2010.  I was born and raised in Kentucky, where I also attended college.  I spent time in Uganda during college, working on community health projects and assisting in an international school.  I studied in Cairo, Egypt, and travelled through the Middle East my senior year of college, and I became very interested in the ways religion, ethics and politics interact in diverse global contexts. 

After a year of teaching in an international school in Kampala, Uganda, I moved to Denver to pursue an MA in religious studies at DU.  I studied a variety of religious movements, and focused in my thesis on religio-politics in Israel/Palestine.   After a brief stint as an adjunct instructor of world religions at West Virginia University, I returned to Denver to begin a PhD in religious studies with a Religion and Social Change concentration.  I love that my job as program coordinator for this community constantly overlaps with what I am studying in my PhD program here at DU.    

I strongly believe that no social justice issue exists in isolation; each issue is necessarily connected to all other issues of justice.  I love working with college students to explore the concept of social justice and to find ways in which they can work for social change in our world.