08/23/2026
| Ignatian Voices
Jennifer LaMaster
Executive Director, Jesuit Schools Network
Our Ignatian Voices series explores the people and ideas that bring Jesuit education to life.
This week, we feature Jennifer LaMaster, Executive Director of the Jesuit Schools Network, which supports nearly 90 Jesuit elementary, middle, and high schools across the United States and Canada.
LaMaster recently reflected on the enduring mission: helping young people grow in faith, justice, service, and academic excellence.
"At its best, Jesuit Catholic education forms students not only for success in the classroom, but for lives of purpose, compassion, leadership, and reconciliation with God, self, and others."
She emphasized one of the defining hallmarks: cura personalis, care for the whole person. For more than 500 years, since its founding by St. Ignatius, Jesuit schools have challenged students academically while also nurturing their intellectual, spiritual, moral, and social development, helping them discover and share their unique gifts with the world.
What makes LaMaster's perspective especially meaningful is that she is not only a leader in Jesuit education, but also the parent of Jesuit-educated children. Her personal and professional experience reflects what so many families here at our school and across the Network hope for their students: an education that goes beyond academics and prepares young people to lead lives of faith, service, and meaning.
As we begin a new school year and welcome prospective families exploring Jesuit High School Sacramento, she reminds us that the heart of a Jesuit education is helping students flourish and become the people they are called to be.
That lasting impact on our Marauders is what we call The Jesuit Effect.
