NJ Educator Elected Trustee At Seton Hall’s Sister Rose Thering Fund

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The Sister Rose Thering Fund for Education in Jewish-Christian Studies (SRTF) announced that it is pleased to welcome Lisa Capone Steiger to its Board of Trustees for a three-year term, effective Fall 2024.

A Rockaway, New Jersey resident, Ms. Steiger serves as assistant superintendent of schools for Equity, Inclusion, Intervention and Inspiration for the Livingston public school system. A New Jersey native, Steiger was raised in Livingston, and then Cedar Knolls. She has held a variety of positions within the Livingston school district since 2000, including learning disability teacher/consultant, director of summer projects and pre-K through grade 12 supervisor of student services. Ms. Steiger served as principal of Livingston’s Burnet Hill elementary school between 2010 and 2015, when she was promoted to assistant superintendent of student services.

In 2017 she became assistant superintendent, holding that position until 2021 when she was named to her current post. “As we have launched our fourth decade, the Sister Rose Thering Fund is proud to welcome Lisa Capone Steiger to our Board,” said Anthony C. Sciglitano, Ph.D., associate professor of religion, and SRTF executive director. “Lisa’s professional experience, along with her commitment to social justice, are ideal assets to our mission and vision. We look forward to working together in the Sister Rose Thering Fund 2024-25 program year.”

Ms. Steiger said, “Having spent my adult life working to create spaces where humans from all walks of life know they belong, I’m in awe of the work accomplished by both Sister Rose and the Fund named for her. It is an honor to now be a part of an organization that has such impact on social justice and interreligious understanding. As a grandmother of a little girl who is the descendant of two Holocaust survivors, as well as being both Catholic and Jewish, I’m pleased to have an opportunity to work closely with my fellow trustees to ensure that Sister Rose’s mission will live on with the next generations.”

Ms. Steiger added, “My late father was a proud graduate of Seton Hall. He would be thrilled to know that I’m now involved with so meaningful a Board that has deep roots with his alma mater.”

A former adjunct professor at The College of New Jersey, where she taught Leadership for Social Justice, Ms. Steiger has also taught in the post-graduate teacher certification program for special education at Bloomfield College (now Bloomfield College of Montclair State University). She received her bachelor’s degree from Montclair State University, and holds two master’s degrees, one each from Montclair State and Caldwell College, respectively.

Ms. Steiger is also affiliated with the New Jersey Association of Principals and Supervisors, the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the New Jersey Association of School Administrators, among other professional associations.

The parish she attended from her youth through adulthood was Notre Dame of Mt. Carmel, Cedar Knolls, where her late husband, Jimmy, worked as well. She has two daughters, Allie and Jessie, a son-in-law Brian, and a granddaughter Frankie Jude.

ABOUT THE SISTER ROSE THERING FUND

The Sister Rose Thering Fund was founded in 1993 to provide full tuition scholarships to teachers in the tri-state area who matriculate in Seton Hall’s graduate program in Jewish-Christian Studies. It has awarded scholarship aid to more than 400 public, private and religious schoolteachers since that time, making it possible for hundreds of thousands of elementary, middle and high school students in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania to learn the lessons of how religious intolerance and bigotry can result in the human tragedy of the Holocaust and other genocides. The mission of the Fund is to advance Sister Rose Thering's legacy by fostering understanding and cooperation among Jews, Christians and people of other religious traditions through advocacy and education. For more information about the Sister Rose Thering Fund, visit its website or contact the Fund directly at (973) 761-9006 or srtf@shu.edu.

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