As Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota’s celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2024, it also celebrated the conferring of degrees upon the first cohort of religious sisters who are a part of the university’s Latin American Sisters Initiative. The sisters have been enrolled in the university’s Health and Human Services programs online, which has been made possible through the U.S.-Latin American Sisters Exchange Program, a partnership between Catholic Extension and Saint Mary’s. As a part of the program, the sisters serve as missionaries in underserved Latino communities across the U.S. while also receiving degrees from Saint Mary’s.
Catholic Extension recently highlighted 10 of the graduating sisters and the communities they have reached:
