Joanna Pressimone

Campus Minister
Center for Student Life, room 3
610-796-5512
610-796-8381 (Fax)
joanna.pressimone@alvernia.edu

Bio

Joanna R. Pressimone started working at Alvernia College in July, 2006. As a campus minister, she is responsible for most of the Spiritual Life programming on campus; that includes everything from Sunday Mass to weekend retreats to interfaith prayer services to Baccalaureate and beyond! She is a huge fan of ecumenism and strives to make everyone feel welcome in campus ministry. She also loves the opportunities to collaborate with Kristen (the Director of Campus Ministry) on service and social justice programs.

Jo completed her BA in Religious Studies at Saint Michael’s College, Vermont. While there, she was an RA for 3 years, a devoted member and officer of the college chorale and chamber singers, a performer in the improv troupe –{Rough Edges>, a member of the co-ed a capella group “Sleepless Knights”, a player in main stage theater productions, a student leader on Alternative Break trips to Selma, AL and Baltimore, MD, among other things. She also was very involved with campus ministry (surprised?), serving on retreat teams and as a Eucharistic minister/altar server at Mass. She was also known to take the occasional class.

Jo loves many things, including but not limited to barbecue sauce, watching movies, singing show tunes, hanging out with her fam-damily, John Adams (the late great president), slinkies, Pope John Paul II, rocking chairs, flexible flyer sleds and hugs.