Collection
COPS/Metro
Contributor
Ortiz, Barbara; Sr. Rita Nealon; Zapata, Juan
Publication Date
Spring 2024
Description
Rita Nealon shares her experiences with COPS/Metro over her years in San Antonio. She talked about COPS success and the key role women played in challenging the status quo and advocating for the needs of their community. She talked about actively working within her community for affordable housing, gun control and voter turnout. She hopes the organization will continue to focus on local issues and empower marginalized communities.
Biography
Sr. Rita Nealon was born in Limerick, Ireland and joined the Holy Spirit Sisters in 1958. She taught at the Little Flower and Holy Cross High Schools in San Antonio for 20 years. Then she spent 25 years in Nayarit, Mexico ministering to communities there. She moved back to the United States, working in El Paso with migrants, and then moving back to San Antonio.
Interview Index
03:48 Empowerment of women
09:14 Promoting voting, increasing voter turnout
14:49 Gun safety
Keywords
COPS; COPS/Metro; women; empowerment; voting; gun safety
Size or Duration
9 pages; 22 mins, 12 secs of audio
Format
MP3, PDF
Disciplines
Oral History | Social Justice
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Ortiz, Barbara, "COPS/Metro Alliance - StMU Oral Histories with Sister Rita Nealon" (2024). COPS/Metro. 4.
https://commons.stmarytx.edu/copsmetro/4
