Virginia Schilder

Virginia supports the Communications team’s work, helping to articulate NETWORK’s policy agenda and vision and its roots in the Catholic Social Justice tradition. She contributes to content such as blogs, press releases, and toolkits and resources to equip our field for advocacy for the common good.

Virginia’s work with NETWORK began in 2021 as a field education placement while she was a student in divinity school, pursuing her Master of Divinity. She continued working with NETWORK part-time while studying liberative theologies in a Master of Theology program. After graduating, Virginia began full-time with the NETWORK Communications team in June 2024.

In addition to her studies in public policy and liberation and eco-theologies, Virginia has experience in hospital chaplaincy, advocacy and campaign work, organizing Catholic community life, and volunteering in a prison and on a community farm.