Rose Marie Berger

Rose Marie Berger is a Catholic poet and writer who has worked for social change movements for 40 years. With a Masters degree in poetry, she is poetry editor and senior associate editor at Sojourners magazine, which has a mission to inspire hope and action by articulating the biblical call to social justice. She has published numerous articles and collaborated on several books. She was raised in the American River watershed, in traditional Miwok territory. She has lived for more than 30 years in Washington, D.C., in the Anacostia watershed, in traditional Anacostoan-Piscataway territory. She is currently active in the Watershed Discipleship movement and the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, which formed in 2016 following a landmark meeting in Rome on Catholics and Nonviolence.