LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 12: Father Gregory Boyle attends the 2022 Lo Máximo Awards and Fundraising Gala at JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE on March 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)

Fr Gregory Boyle

Sponsor: St Matthew Parish

Fr. Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest, is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world. Homeboy Industries employs and trains former gang members in a range of social enterprises, as well as providing critical services to thousands of individuals who walk through its doors every year. He is the author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller, “Tattoos on the Heart.”

d01 You’re Still on the Fastest Route: Arriving at a Community of Cherished Belonging

With Homeboy Industries as a backdrop, this workshop will explore the power of love to transform the disunity that currently keeps us from each other. Loving is our home, and knowing that is to never be homesick again.

 

Youth Day Speaker