Our Team

Sr. Bridget Bearss, RSCJ is an educator, artist-writer, activist for the Beatitudes, and facilitator of processes to build and strengthen the experience of communities of dialogue, justice and hope.

She is a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart, United States-Canada Province, serving as a member of the National Staff of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) as the Associate Director for Transformative Justice. In this role, she is responsible for the launch of the newly formed Office of Transformative Justice in response to the changing needs of the world and the responsive presence of women religious to the many challenges of social and environmental injustice. In this capacity, she has responsibility for the development of resources, programs and opportunities for encounter in response to the LCWR Assembly Resolution, addresing the root causes at the intersection of racism, forced migration and climate crisis. In this moment, LCWR seeks a new way of presence in the invitation to respond to polarization and division through the transformation of consciousness. Listening deeply to congregational leaders, justice promoters and those partners in mission who work towards the Gospel vision of right relationship, she seeks avenues for understanding, dialogue and action inspired by the common good.

As a Religious of the Sacred Heart, the integration of contemplation and apostolic mission into a single movement is a source of both inspiration and life-integration for her. It is the journey of living from the heart of God into the heart of the world that most characterizes her journey.

She is a graduate of two university communities in St. Louis, Maryville University (BA in education) and Washington University (MEd/Educational Policies and Leadership). Prior to moving to Washington, DC in 2018, she spent 35 years working in the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, 26 years at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills, MI.

She loves the exploration of the pathway to justice, education and spirituality through the presence with and among the people of God. She brings her creative energy and the heart of an educator to whatever unfolds in each day.