Blessed Frederic Ozanam by Alison Zlatic

March 21 – Blessed Frederic Ozanam: Subsidiarity and the Encounter with Christ by Alison Zlatic, SVdP Cincinnati District Council President

Alison is the District Council President for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Cincinnati and a Vincentian at Nativity parish. She received her Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Dayton, having first completed her undergraduate work in Secondary Education at UD. She began her career as a Jesuit volunteer working in a homeless shelter for single adults and then joined the Lalanne program at UD where she taught social studies and theology. She has studied material poverty domestically and internationally through the lens of faith in Cincinnati, Detroit, Bridgeport, CT, Philadelphia, Appalachia, South Dakota, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Haiti. She was a member of the team that created the Ozanam Center for Service Learning at St. Vincent de Paul and has a particular passion for the issue of affordable housing. She and her husband, Paul live in Pleasant Ridge with their five young boys, father-in-law and 20 chickens!