Season 2 Episode 8: If you’ve been paying attention to the Ignatian Solidarity Network’s campaigns and programs since 2024, you might recognize the name Ori Cappella. Ori has been at the forefront of ISN’s immigration justice work, having attended two Unity Network Summits and organized programs on Stonehill College’s campus, where she recently graduated. In this podcast episode, Ori talks about how student organizing, faith, and identity have shaped her advocacy. The conversation follows her campus campaigns for migrants and mixed-status communities, and the way she connects migration, disability justice, mental health, and ecological justice.

• Read about the Unity Network, where Ori serves on the core committee, and the Cabrini Student Organizing Summit on Migration that she has helped organize.
• Learn how Ori implemented campus events as part of larger ISN campaigns for immigrant justice.
• Pray with Ori’s ISN Lenten series reflection and her Earth Day prayer, published by Education for Justice.

Antell Cole, a recent graduate of Saint Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia, kept a reminder pinned in his notes app on his phone: “don’t forget what you learned at IFTJ.” Inspired by the formation and connections from his participation in 3 different Ignatian Family Teach-Ins for Justice and the formative Arrupe Leaders Summit, Antell was the driving force behind the Prep’s first Interreligious Peacebuilding Summit. Replete with speakers and breakouts just like IFTJ, Antell laid the groundwork for yet another tradition at St. Joe’s Prep that allows students to apply their faith to build a more just world.

• Read about the breakout session at IFTJ that inspired the Prep’s Interreligious Peacebuilding Summit.
• Watch the webinar that touches on some of the topics discussed in the inspirational IFTJ breakout session.
• Read about the Arrupe Leaders Summit that Antell attended in 2025.
• Register for the 2026 Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice, where thousands of inspiring youth like Antell will share their gifts and deepen in perspective to amplify justice.

Aydee Cruz Mejía, an undergraduate student at Fairfield University and an alumnus of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Milwaukee, credits the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice as a major catalyst in her justice-seeking vocation. She has attended five of them so far, presented at three of them, and deepened her leadership skills as a high schooler at the Arrupe Leaders Summit. Aydee is a fantastic example of a student who is not only open to growth but also provokes growth from the people and institutions to which she belongs.

• Read about the last Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice, at which Aydee presented a breakout session called “Building Solidarity and Justice in Predominantly White Institutions.”
• Read about the recent Arrupe Leaders Summit, a formative experience Aydee underwent as a high schooler.