Contact Campus Ministry
Office Information
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Rose Hill
McShane Campus Center
CMCE Suite 215
Phone: 718-817-4500
Fax: 718-817-4505
[email protected]
Lincoln Center
Lowenstein 217
New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-636-6267
Fax: 212-636-7212
[email protected]
Westchester
Room 133
400 Westchester Ave.
West Harrison, NY 10604
Phone: 914-367-3420
Fax: 914-367-3421
[email protected]
Campus Ministry Staff
Executive and Rose Hill Staff
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Rev. Jose Luis Salazar, SJ is in his eighth year as Executive Director of Campus Ministry. Residing with 120 First Year students in Loyola Hall has been a vital and enriching part of his priestly ministry. Lito wasn’t always a Jesuit. He worked for a decade as a chemical engineer for Royal Dutch Shell in Manila and in The Hague before entering religious life in London. He taught Theology at Xavier in Manhattan, at St. Peter’s Prep, and at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City. Lito completed his doctoral studies on Bernard Lonergan SJ at Nijmegen University in The Netherlands. When he gets away from campus, he visits family in NJ. (Warning: no jokes about which parkway exit!) Lito loves relaxing with family dogs, Luna and Moose.
Executive Director of Campus Ministry
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 718-817-4503
McShane Campus Center, CMCE 214
Available for: General Campus Ministry, Spiritual Direction, Post Graduate Volunteer Discernment, Sacramental Ministry (Reconciliation), Pastoral Counseling, Drop-In Ministry, Social Justice Advocacy, Priesthood Discernment.
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Gil Severiano is starting her 23nd year! She is often found in the Campus Ministry office in the new McShane Campus Center with her amazing team of student interns. Together they help bring forth Campus Ministry events, programs, and ministries. Gil is passionate about advising Pedro Arrupe Volunteers alongside Carol Gibney. PAV provides opportunities for students to engage with the New York City community through direct service projects and have meaningful conversations about issues of our times. One of her favorite projects is the annual Trick or Treat event for neighborhood children on campus and watching our students have fun with them. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Jorge, and is a proud mother of three humans (Lauren, Gabi GSB MS 21', and Alex FCRH 14') and a new puppy Millie. She loves traveling (especially Portugal and Italy), gardening, cooking, and entertaining! If you are in the McShane Campus Center, come up to 215 and say hi!
Director of Campus Ministry Operations, Budget, and Community Engagement
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 718-817-4502
McShane Campus Center, CMCE 215
Available for: General Campus Ministry, Social Justice Advocacy
Katie Anderson Kuo, as the Campus Minister for Liturgy, is a big fan of incense, hymns, and stained glass but just as big a fan of finding God in unexpected places, whether it’s a quiet corner of the Botanical Gardens or the busy hum of Fordham Road. Katie has worked in ministry in a variety of settings: community organizing, accompanying and advocating for immigrants, coordinating disaster response teams, and, here at Fordham, working with student volunteers and leaders to coordinate prayerful, peaceful, and joyful Masses in our Church and chapels. She is also a resident minister for Walsh Hall, home of the Science Integrated Learning Community. She is most passionate about empowering students to discover their own spirituality, creativity, and wisdom. You can often find Katie in her Church basement lair —erm, office— but when she’s not there, she’s either creating a work of art, taking a walk with her family, or on a gustatory tour of the world. Katie grew up in “Small Wonder,” Delaware, home of farmstand peaches, winding hiking trails, and gorgeous beaches, and has trouble believing that she’s now been a New Yorker for ten years. She lives in the Bronx with her husband and their two tiny humans.
Associate Director of Campus Ministry for Liturgical Ministry
Email:[email protected]
Phone: 718-817-0588
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Available for: General Campus Ministry, Post Graduate Volunteer Discernment, Drop-In Ministry, Social Justice Advocacy.
Carol Gibney is beginning her 22nd year working at Fordham in the Office of Campus Ministry. She is a native New Yorker who grew up in New York City and continues to reside in the lovely Riverdale community in the Bronx. In addition to directing retreats, offering pastoral ministry and various programs, she oversees a community engagement/service program called the Pedro Arrupe Volunteers, where she works with a student council to set up service opportunities and organize conversations and dialogues around issues of justice through the lens of faith. As she is a certified yoga teacher, Carol also leads weekly Ignatian Spirituality and Yoga sessions. Additionally, she provides a weekly graduate student program with opportunities for fellowship, personal reflection, conversations, and prayer. Carol works at both the Lincoln Center and Rose Hill campuses and declares her emphatic love of love!
Director, Office of Campus Ministry Solidarity and Leadership
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 718-817-4518
McShane Campus Center, CMCE 213 & SL 20A (LC)
Available for: General Campus Ministry, Spiritual Direction, Post Graduate Volunteer Discernment, Pastoral Counseling, Graduate Student Ministry, Drop-in Ministry, Social Justice Advocacy
Mr. Robert Minotti began his tenure at Fordham in the Fall of 1990. He is the first full-time director of liturgical music for the University Church and the founder of the Schola Cantorum, the first student-led choir to participate in the 11:00 Mass at the Church. In addition to liturgical music, Robert directs the Fordham University Choir. Robert’s position at Fordham is a choral director’s “dream job.” As an organist, Robert is blessed that in 2012, the University showed its commitment to liturgical music by installing a world-class new pipe organ -the Maior Dei Gloria Organ. When not making music Robert enjoys reading a good book, cooking (mostly Italian), gardening, and the opera.
Director of Campus Ministry for Liturgical Music
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 718-817-4504
Fax: 718-817-4505
McShane Campus Center, CMCE 215
Available For: General Campus Ministry, Organ Lessons.
Dr. Joan Cavanagh, PHD Senior Director for Spirituality and Solidarity.
Joan has ministered to the faculty, students, and staff at all three of Fordham’s campuses. She loves helping people to find God in the midst of their ordinary lives and struggles. She feels it is a privilege to accompany students, faculty, and staff on their unique life journeys. Joan enjoys wearing many hats at work. She serves as an advisor and supports students in our faith-based student clubs. She is always on the lookout for opportunities for interfaith gatherings. She accompanies members of the community who have suffered the loss of a loved one as they work through their grief. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Joan is in a unique position to offer pastoral support to queer students. She is available for pastoral conversations and spiritual direction with students, faculty, and staff. Joan brings her energy, enthusiasm, and wisdom gained from many years in Campus Ministry at Fordham. She looks forward to joining you on your journey! Please stop by and say hello!
Senior Director of Campus Ministry for Spiritual and Pastoral Ministries,
Director of Campus Ministry at Westchester Campus
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 914-367-3420
McShane Campus Center, CMCE 212 and Westchester 133
Available for: General Campus Ministry, Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Counseling, Bereavement, Prayer Services, LGBTQ Ministry, Presentations on Ignatian Spirituality, Post Graduate Volunteer Discernment.
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Stephanie Roddy, or Roddy as most people know her, is eager to work alongside this year's retreat leaders to accompany each and every student retreatant on their personal and spiritual journeys this year. Roddy works to create an intentional space in Fordham's Retreat House in Goshen, NY, that fosters connection, community, and reflection. When not on retreats, Roddy loves to read, make art, and connect with friends. Roddy also serves as a Resident Minister and is an additional level of support for students living in the Residence Hall here at Fordham. Roddy hopes that you will join us on one of Fordham's Retreats this year! Stop by the McShane Campus Center to say hello!
Director of Spiritual Retreat Ministries
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 718-817-4539
McShane Campus Center, CMCE 232
Available For: General Campus Ministry, Social Justice Advocacy, Post Graduate Volunteer Discernment, and Drop-in Ministry
Lincoln Center Staff
Donna Lajoux has worked as the secretary of Campus Ministry Lincoln Centers since 2014. She was born and raised in lower Manhattan's Chinatown and currently lives in the Bronx. Donna has two beautiful daughters; the oldest is a registered nurse, and the youngest works in finance and recently earned a master's from Fordham's Gabelli School of Business. Donna loves being part of the Fordham Family.
Sr. Executive Secretary
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 212-636-6267
Lowenstein 217
Erin Hoffman is starting her 14th year at Fordham! She lives with her family in McMahon Hall at Fordham Lincoln Center, where her main goal is to help students thrive during their time at Fordham. She facilitates Campus Ministry initiatives and partnerships for LC, which include interfaith and multi-faith initiatives, social justice conversations and programs, liturgy and spirituality events, and peer ministry, among others. Erin loves all things, well, most things, politics and won't shy away from an opportunity to have an engaging conversation about current events, social justice, and civic engagement (vote!). Perhaps this comes from her background studying international politics and foreign policy in college or social work with a global practice focus in graduate school. Erin is a proud (and tired) mom to 3 young kids who are very excited to have students return to McMahon hall and delight in saying hi to everyone they meet. If you find one of them wandering solo on campus, please return to Campus Ministry or McMahon 6G!
Director of Campus Ministry for Lincoln Center
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 212-636-6318
Lowenstein 217A
Available for: General Campus Ministry, Post Graduate Volunteer Discernment, Pastoral Counseling, Drop-In Ministry, Social Justice Advocacy, Spiritual Direction
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Robert J. Parmach, Ph.D. serves as the inaugural director of Ignatian mission and ministry in the office of the vice president for mission integration and ministry at Fordham University, where he also teaches philosophy and theology. He is a native New Yorker; Rob graduated from Xavier High School and earned a BA in philosophy with classics distinction from Fairfield University, where he ran cross-country and track, and his MA and PhD from Fordham University. He started his career in student affairs as a counselor and peer educator before becoming an academic dean of first-year students at Fordham College at Rose Hill, where he served as faculty director of its Manresa Scholars integrated learning community for first-year students and coordinator of the sophomore West Wing Ignatian leadership program. Rob's teaching and scholarship highlight practical applications of philosophy, theology, and Jesuit education. He has served on the student life committee of Xavier High School and the advisory board of Contemplative Leaders in Actions of the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus. For twenty-five years now, during the first week in June, Rob, along with Fordham students and young alumni, participated in Fordham's Global Outreach project at Camp Friendship, an apostolate for foster children in rural Mississippi. Rob's role focuses on helping our Fordham community to better understand, value, and engage our Ignatian and Jesuit charism in all we do.
Director of Ignatian Mission and Ministry
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 212-636-6268
Lowenstein 219
Available for: Jesuit education and pedagogy, Ignatian spirituality programming, discernment, workshops/presentations, University mission representation
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Rabbi Katja Vehlow PhD (she/her) joined the team in 2024. She hopes to support Jewish Life at Fordham through facilitating connections, celebrations, and interfaith encounters. She looks forward to co-creating joyous opportunities to celebrate Shabbat and Jewish holidays throughout the year. Rabbi Katja is particularly passionate about nurturing multifaith encounters on campus through conversations, shared projects and hospitality, and also offers one-on-one supportive counseling. Rabbi Katja was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, holds a PhD in medieval Jewish history from NYU (she was faculty for a decade at the USC Columbia), and most recently trained as a hospital chaplain in Brooklyn. She grew up in Germany, and studied in the UK and in Israel before moving to the US. As an immigrant, Rabbi Katja is attuned to stories of loss and arrival, and to the complexities and joys that come with living and studying away from home. She lives with her family on the Upper West Side. Rabbi Katja hopes you will reach out for a chat over shared snacks or walks across campus. No topic is too insignificant or too far-fetched!
Director of Jewish Life
Jewish Chaplain and Campus Rabbi
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 212-636-6405
Instagram: RabbiKatja
McShane Campus Center, CMCE 215 (RH) or Lowenstein 217 (LC)
Available for: General Campus Ministry, Pastoral Encounters, Multifaith Work, Jewish Education, Jewish Religious and Ritual Needs
Imam Ammar Abdul Rahman is an esteemed figure in the realm of Islamic education and community leadership, with a wealth of experience spanning over a decade. He is an inspiring educator in both secular and Islamic teachings. Grounded in a strong foundation of Islamic theology and jurisprudence, Imam Ammar has dedicated his career to imparting the teachings of Islam to the youth. He currently serves as a deputy Imam at Masjid Al-Haram USA in The Bronx, where his dynamic and engaging approach to education has created a nurturing environment for young minds to explore their faith, ask questions, and develop a profound connection with the principles of Islam. With a passion for fostering understanding and harmony among diverse religious communities, Imam Ammar has actively participated in interfaith dialogue and charitable activities. Recognizing the importance of building bridges between different faith traditions, he has worked tirelessly to promote mutual respect and collaboration by cultivating an atmosphere where people of all backgrounds can come together, breaking down barriers, and fostering a spirit of unity. Before joining Fordham University, Imam Ammar worked with the Interfaith Center of New York where he collaborated with New York Disaster Interfaith Service (NYDIS) as well as the NYC Mayor's office to identify potential houses of worship to provide overnight shelters for asylum seekers. In his free time, Imam Ammar loves to spend quality time with his beautiful wife and 3 children.
Our Interns
Jonathan Fong is a senior at FCRH majoring in International Political Economy and Philosophy with a minor in Theology. This is his second year as Sacristan and first year as Sacramental Coordinator. He is excited to help minister to students and create an environment of hospitality and accompaniment in the University Church.
Jennifer Perez is a junior at FCRH majoring in biology on the pre-vet track. She loves spending her time helping PAUS to raise funds for underprivileged animals. She is volunteering at animal shelters in her spare time, and catching up on comedies or romcoms whenever she can. She enjoys her time at Campus Ministry as it helps expand her emotionally by bringing her out of her introverted mind. Campus Ministry has become a safe place, and she believes anyone who enters CM will feel the same!
Hannah Black is a pre-law junior at FCRH. She is pursuing a B.A. in American Studies with a concentration in Power, Politics, & Institutions and double minors in Political Science and Humanitarian Studies. She was raised in Killington, Vermont and is passionate about environmental and social justice. In her free time, Hannah enjoys making 100+ hour Spotify playlists, hunting for pointless little knick knacks, and taking leisurely walks through Times Square. She enjoys working at Campus Ministry because of the wonderful people and projects that she is surrounded by on a daily basis.
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Luca Viscoso is a junior at Fordham College Rose Hill on the Pre-Law track majoring in Political Science with a double minor in Classical Languages and Philosophy. He also is going to apply to the 3-3 Law Program at Fordham Law School. He was born and raised in Queens, New York and has gone to Fordham Prep, which makes this his 7th year on campus. As he likes to say, "I've been on campus longer than most of the graduating seniors and a lot of faculty." He has been involved with Fordham Campus Ministry since his Freshman year of college, having gone on several retreats and been attending the weekly Masses on Sunday. It was not until his sophomore year when he became more involved in Campus Ministry as a retreat leader, an altar server, Eucharistic Minister, Sacristan, and through Praise and Worship. He joined Campus Ministry staff in Summer 2024 so he can give back to the community he found his home in. He is excited to meet new people and hear their stories while working here.
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Laura Oldfather is a rising senior at Fordham College Lincoln Center. She is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is majoring in theology and minoring in journalism. Her favorite Campus Ministry events to attend are retreats at the house in Goshen. What she loves the most about working for Campus Ministry (besides the wonderful people) is all the details and love that go into planning every single program!
Valerie Tauro is a senior at Fordham College Lincoln Center double-majoring in music and English with a concentration in creative writing. She was raised in Alexander City, Alabama and enjoys going on long walks with her dog. In her spare time, Valerie likes listening to film scores, crocheting and knitting, and having movie nights with her roommates. She loves working at Campus Ministry for its friendly environment and the opportunity to help others find their community on campus.
Dheya Abyan is a junior at FCRH. He is pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Economics. He is a native New Yorker, born and raised in the Bronx, and has a passion for coding and networking with other people who work and study in the same field. In his free time, he enjoys working out at the Ram Fit Center, going to different restaurants in the city with friends and family, and coding with several of his friends at night. His time at Fordham has been wonderful and he will continue to work with his community to improve it even further through Campus Ministry.
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Sonia Morris is a senior at Fordham University Rose Hill, majoring in English and minoring in Mandarin. Her hometown is New Rochelle, New York. She loves working at Campus Ministry because it has introduced her to wonderful people and helped her to better understand Fordham's mission as a whole.
Mariam Ali is a Junior at Fordham University-Lincoln Center, majoring in Philosophy with two minors in Political Science and Theology on the Pre-Law track. She was born in East Harlem and raised in The Bronx. She loves talking about philosophy and theology at any hour of the day which led her to join the Campus Ministry Community. She plans to grow the Muslim community at Fordham. What she loves about Campus Ministry is the growing community that is always welcoming groups of all religious backgrounds.
Isabella "Issy" Knapik is a Sophomore at Fordham University Lincoln Center, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Cybersecurity. She was born and raised in Northwest Arkansas. She enjoys going on walks and coding. She loves working at Campus Ministry for the welcoming environment and for the opportunities they provide.
Tajah Burgher is a Junior at Fordham University Rose Hill, majoring in Engineering Physics with a concentration in Mechanical Engineering. She was born and raised in The Bronx. Though she basically lives in Freeman's Physics department, in her free time she enjoys books, knitting, and exploring the tri-state with friends. This is her first summer working with Campus Ministry, but so far she's having a good time. She loves the calm and supporting community that's welcomed her.
AnnaMarie Pacione is a rising junior at Fordham College Rose Hill studying Humanitarian Studies and Theology. Her heart has been hugged by all Campus Ministry communities, especially on retreats, at Praise and Worship, PAV projects, and in liturgical ministries her past two years. Working in Campus Ministry Summer 2024 has given her so much joy as she prepares for another year of spiritual and community growth. She is passionate about synodality and women in the Church. Outside of the office, she is most alive when she is spending time at the NY Catholic Worker, jogging, and writing.
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Melvin Martinez is a senior majoring in Engineering Physics at FCRH. He is a Bronx native and commutes everyday to school with the help of his legs. On campus, he is constantly participating in various Campus Ministry projects and events, as well as practicing for performances with Candela, Fordham’s Latinx Dance Team. He loves playing the bass guitar and his 12-string guitar in his downtime, as well as playing soccer or thrifting in the city too. If you ever want to discuss science, music, hidden gems around the city to visit, or how to get involved on campus, please feel free to reach out to him!
James Haddad is a senior who is majoring in finance. This is his second year working in the office of Campus Ministry, and it’s been a great experience for him! As he says, "I've made new friends, gone on retreats, and volunteered with awesome groups of people."
Will Gualtiere is a senior at FCLC double majoring in Film and TV and English. Will has been involved with Campus Ministry programs since his freshman year of high school and now participates in Fordham’s CM activities as a retreat leader as well as a new Peer Minister. Outside of CM, Will is a student ambassador and tour guide for Fordham and is also on the Splinter Musical Theater club’s E-Board. Off campus, Will spends his weekends often attending a Broadway show, volunteering at Xavier Mission, or, on some weekends, even camping for SNL tickets! Will can’t wait to begin his work with CM and get better acquainted with this great community!