Alex Gruber

The Coalition for Spiritual & Public Leadership is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, spiritually rooted organization that labors to transform racial, economic, social and environmental systemic structures through grassroots coalition building, community organizing, and liberative formation. The fellow will lead a participatory research project in collaboration with grassroots Catholic community members to explore how spiritual discernment can better support justice-oriented leaders in decision making, collective action, and resilience. The fellow will combine theological research with qualitative data collection to develop a practical Spiritual Discernment Toolkit for leaders and organizers.

Alex Gruber is a third-year doctoral candidate specializing in modern historical theology at Fordham University. His research focuses on US Catholic and Indigenous interactions, traditions, and approaches to land. He aims to create a place-based religious history of northeastern Wisconsin with attention to the Menominee and Oneida Indigenous nations, Walloon settlers, and the Norbertine or Premonstratensian Order of Canons Regular.