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Maria Smith recollects her early life growing up in Jefferson City, Missouri, attending Catholic schools and later studying Political Science in college. Smith decided to go to law school soon after, later reconnecting with her faith. Smith highlights the need to find community in her life, which eventually led her to Cleveland’s Near West Side. Smith and her husband were involved in the Witness for Peace where they lived and worked in Nicaragua during the Contra War. They would eventually live…

Sister Catherine Walsh of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine recollects her early childhood growing up on a farm in County Mayo, Ireland. Before she made her religious vows, Sister Catherine immigrated to Ohio in order to work. After she made her vows, she taught special education at Parmadale and worked in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland. Sister Catherine then spent six years in El Salvador with the Cleveland Mission Team. After she returned to Ohio she helped establish the Akron…