Just Advocacy Week (JAW) is a week-long leadership and experiential learning program centered on faith-based advocacy rooted in Catholic Social Justice principles and inspired by the example of Catholic sisters.

Just Advocacy Week 2015 participants visiting the Lincoln Memorial.

Just Advocacy Week brings together a diverse group of emerging leaders from across the country who are committed to justice and dedicated to dismantling systems of oppression. JAW participants will experience the D.C. policy world, examine wealth and income inequality, and hear from experienced social justice advocates on how faith can inspire action for social and economic transformation. The week will prepare JAW participants to lobby their elected officials in Congress on their last day in Washington D.C.

Through workshops and peer collaboration, JAW participants gain the skills to educate, organize, and lobby for social justice. When the week is over, JAW participants will take what they’ve learned to plan and lead a post-JAW project to advance social justice within their own communities.