Sister Emily TeKolste, SP

Sister Emily TeKolste, SP, is a member of the Grassroots Mobilization team, engaging NETWORK advocates and supporters in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Emily’s background as a volunteer activist and organizer is supplemented by work in environmental and justice education as well as living in the Indianapolis Catholic Worker community and working at a neighborhood food pantry and community center.

Emily’s passion for social justice brought her to the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, where she professed first vows in June 2019. She graduated from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she encountered issues of social and environmental justice. As an Xavier student, she became involved in working for greater justice through the Dorothy Day Center for Faith & Justice and an academic service learning semester in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.

Emily is originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, and currently lives in Terre Haute, Indiana.