Donna Ambrogi was born April 18, 1929 in St. Paul, Minnesota. She grew up in Huntington Park, California during World War II. Her family was Jewish and supported political work against discrimination. She was baptized a Christian, and in 1957 Donna received a Fulbright Grant to study ecumenism in Europe and the U.S. She was involved with Catholic-Protestant dialogue, and facilitated cooperation between Catholic lay people and Protestant clergy. In 1963-64, Donna participated in civil rights work with members of the Grail, attending the March on Washington, civil rights activism in Boston and her first arrest during a sit-in in Williamston, North Carolina. Her studies continued at the Ecumenical Institute, in 1966 at Bossey, Switzerland, with a World Council of Churches internship in Scotland. She was the first woman on staff at the Jesuit Theologate, Los Gatos, California, "always the token woman." Her work led her to participate in a post-Vatican II meeting at Notre Dame, the only woman in all male Catholic-Protestant dialogue group, where she met her husband, clergyman Tom Ambrogi.
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https://soundcloud.com/archiving-living-history/donna-ambrogi-interview (Introduction)
https://soundcloud.com/archiving-living-history/donna-ambrogi-interview-track (Track 2)