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San Francisco’s Modern American Nun

KALW | By Ellen Finn
Published August 9, 2021 at 5:07 PM PDT
Sisters of the Presentation San Francisco
Sister Rita Jovick (second from left) at an anti-trafficking coalition meeting in 2018.

Nuns have worked their way into our collective imaginations through pop culture and the news. Sister Rita Jovick has been a nun in San Francisco for almost 65 years and busts stereotypes about what nuns do for work.

"Sisters really do live longer than the average persons. I think it's kind of a meditative type of lifestyle. We’re not so encumbered by a lot of stuff ... We use our energies more to go out and be with people."
Sister Rita Jovick
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Ellen Finn
Ellen (she/her) has a background in oral history, communication studies, and music. For the past two years, she has worked as a homelessness case manager in South Minneapolis. As a social worker, she got to hear compelling stories from her clients every day and is driven to amplify personal narrative as a source of empowerment and change. In her free time she bikes, plays double bass, and does queer stuff.
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