Simone Campbell

Social Service Sr. Simone Campbell is a 2022 recipient of the Presidential Medal for Freedom (the nation's highest civilian honor) the former executive director of Network, a national Catholic social justice lobby, and author of A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community and Hunger for Hope: Prophetic Communities, Contemplation, and the Common Good.

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A conversation group at Thank You Bookshop in Birmingham, Alabama. Among other topics, participants spoke about how the city is looking to the future, counting on the University of Alabama, particularly its medical school, to help turn the city around. (Courtesy of Simone Campbell)

Nov 30, 2023

Adventurer to create healing: Sr. Simone Campbell on her Southern tour

When I looked at a U.S. map, I realized that I did not know the South. More than that, the South made me nervous. So, I said to myself, if I want to "bridge divides," maybe I should start with the divides within myself.