Victoria Kovari, Acting Executive Director

Victoria Kovari is the Field Director for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. For the last 27 years, Kovari has worked as a community organizer, political consultant and non profit housing developer. Prior to her joining the alliance, she worked as an organizer with MOSES, an affiliate of the Gamaliel Foundation, directing campaigns in Michigan for regional mass transit and health care. She also worked with Gamaliel affiliates in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Upstate New York. In October 2002 ,she was one of 20 U.S. community leaders awarded the Ford Foundation's national Leadership for a Changing World Award. She has served on the faculty of the Schools of Social Work at both the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.

Jennifer Goff, Chief Operating and Communications Officer
jgoff@catholicsinalliance.org

Jennifer Goff is Director of Communications for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. Previously, Goff was senior communications consultant for a national public relations firm, where she provided strategic planning and communications consultations and assisted with media training sessions for leading Catholic organizations and other nonprofits. Previously, Goff was a writer and editor for various trade publications and was also a National Writing Project consultant and teacher. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English and was the Lannon Fellow at Georgetown University, where she earned a Masters in English with a concentration in working-class studies.

John Gehring, Deputy Communications Director and Senior Writer
jgehring@catholicsinalliance.org

John Gehring is a senior writer and media specialist for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. Previously, Gehring was the assistant director for media relations at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, where he provided media outreach and commentary writing for bishops and staff on international justice and peace, immigration and other social justice issues. A former national education reporter for Education Week newspaper, Gehring has also written for the Catholic Review in Baltimore and the Frederick Gazette in Frederick, Md. He graduated from Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md. with a degree in writing and sociology and earned a Masters in journalism from Columbia University in New York City.

Jamie [Peter James] Kralovec, Program Development Manager
jkralovec@catholicsinalliance.org

Jamie Kralovec is the Program Development Manager for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. Kralovec graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2006 with a B.A. in Political Science and NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in 2008 with a Master of Urban Planning. While at Wagner, Kralovec spent his capstone project producing community development recommendations for Hurricane Katrina-affected communities in Gulfport, Mississippi. In addition, he served for a year as program manager of the PlanNYC website at NYU Law’s Furman Center. He has also been an intern for New York City Council Member Gale A. Brewer and US Representative Steny Hoyer, as well as a volunteer teacher at an orphanage in rural Thailand.

Sharon Dillon, Operations Coordinator

Franciscan Sister and author, Sister Sharon is a respected leader, administrator and retreat facilitator. As a 15-year master Special Educator and Franciscan Spiritual Director, Dillon is working toward her second M.A. at Washington Theological Union with a focus on the integration of theology and Franciscan spirituality. Dillon has previously served as the Executive Director of the Franciscan Mission Service of North America and is the former Executive Director of the Franciscan Federation of the Third Order for the United States. Dillon has co-authored the Franciscan Morning and Evening Praise prayer book and has also co- written a book of prayers focused on peace and justice called And So We Pray, along with two manuals, The Franciscan Journey and The Journey Continues. Currently, she is Operations Coordinator for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.