Three Rockhurst University May 2009 graduates have committed to serve as Jesuit Volunteers with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Andrea Essner, Mark Lenihan, and Meaghan Whalen have dedicated themselves to a year or more of simple living and working for social justice in a spiritually supportive community as they walk with people living in poverty or on the margins of society. Essner will work at Pajarito Azul in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua; Lenihan will work at The San Miguel School in Camden; and Whalen will work with AIDS Foundation Houston, Inc. in Houston.

The Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) has offered women and men an opportunity to work full-time for justice and peace. In July 2009, JVC welcomed 293 volunteers to serve throughout the United States and in seven other countries around the world. These volunteers will teach students of all ages, provide legal services, work with refugees and immigrants, serve with social services and at community centers, organize in low-income communities and care for people with HIV/AIDS.