Kathy Berken

Kathy earned her master’s in Theology and graduate certificate in Spiritual Direction from St. Catherine University, St. Paul. 

Previous to her arrival in Minnesota, Kathy was a house coordinator for the L’Arche community in Clinton, Iowa, where she lived and worked with adults with cognitive disabilities. Before that Kathy was the staff reporter and marketing manager for The Compass, the newspaper of the Green Bay diocese, and previous to that she was a high school and college math teacher. 

Kathy is a Wisconsin native with two children and four grandchildren. A two-time breast cancer survivor, she loves to learn anything about most everything, ride her bike in the woods, and spend time with family. 

She is also the author of Walking on a Rolling Deck: Life on the Ark, a memoir of her ten years with L’Arche.