October 23, 2006VOL. 44, NO. 18Oakland, CA

High school teacherprofesses first vows
as Holy Names Sister

Holy Names Sister Anna Keim, a Spanish teacher at Oakland’s Holy Names High School, professed her first vows, Oct. 1, in Spokane, WA, her hometown.
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The thirty-six-year-old nun earned a B.S. in Communication Studies with minors in Spanish and German from Eastern Washington University. While at the university, her campus minister encouraged her to consider religious life.

“I wasn’t ready to seriously look at it,” she recalled. She worked as a bilingual prison corrections officer for two years and as a probation officer for five years.

She earned a Master’s degree in teaching at Gonzaga University in Spokane and it was during that time that she asked about religious life. She began spiritual direction and volunteered with the Holy Names Sister in Wapato, WA, working with Latino children for two summers. She taught Spanish for three years at Gonzaga Prep High School in Spokane.

As a novice with the Holy Names Sisters she spent a year studying theology and volunteering with refugees in Windsor, Ontario. Her mission year was in Alameda, where she studied theology, volunteered as an immigrant advocate and at a safe house for sexually exploited teen girls, and put together a presentation on human trafficking which she took to several high schools.

Sister Anna Keim, SNJM

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