Staff &
Advisory Committee
The Policy Advocate position is vacant. To learn more about this position and how to apply, please view the Job Announcement.

Apply to join our team today!  Resumes and references will be reviewed on a rolling basis.  

Fran Eskin-Royer, Executive Director

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In July 2021, Fran Eskin-Royer assumed the helm of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. With the new title of Executive Director, she oversees planned growth of the office and continues the important mission of educating and advocating primarily on "poverty, immigration, and human trafficking; three issues that impact those on the margins of society – those we serve," says Fran.

"At NAC, we see these issues as inseparable from racism, domestic violence and environmental degradation; the interconnections are undeniable. The signs of the time cry out loudly for action around racial justice and climate change, and our charism’s call to be reconcilers, both with persons and the earth, gives us a clear entry point for this advocacy.​
“With our ties to an international congregation, we also are concerned with how U.S. policy impacts other countries, particularly those where Good Shepherd has sisters and programs," says Fran.

Fran served as associate director from March 2019 until July 2021. Prior to that, she was NAC's staff associate, beginning in April 2014, providing administrative support to the director and sharing responsibility for the daily operations of the office and budgeting.

Contact Fran.​

Advisory Committee

The National Advocacy Center Advisory Committee provides guidance with respect to the organization's overall direction, goals and objectives.  The all-volunteer committee consists of members of the RGS community, advocates from like-minded partner organizations, and other friends of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd engaged in issues of justice, peace and creation care.
  • Monte Abbott, MA, RPA – Director of Province Center Operations, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, St. Louis, MO 
  • Millicent Carvalho-Grevious, PhD, LSW -- Social Worker and Professional Mediator, Philadelphia, PA
  • Sylvia Casaro Dietert -- Program Coordinator, AFL-CIO, Germantown, MD
  • Matthew Cuff – Graduate Student of Theology, Boston College, Boston, MA
  • Brian Grevious – Project Manager, Darby, PA
  • Sr. Brigid Lawlor, RGS – NAC Founder, Religious Assistant for the Vatican Office of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICLSAL), NAC Liaison to the US Good Shepherd Provincials, Silver Spring, MD 
  • ​Annie Minguez – Director of Government and Community Relations, Good Shepherd Services, New York, NY
  • Sr. Carol Pregno, RGS – Social Worker, Former RGS Provincial, Wheeling, WV  
  • David Steenburg – Lawyer, Washington, DC
  • Rev. Andre Towner – ​Baptist Minister, Washington, DC