Brother Ernest currently serves as Director of the Adrien Nyel Project, situated within the Office for Mission and Ministry in the Lasallian District of Eastern North America. The project’s animating motif is the vocation to teach, facilitating mission education and formation in the Lasallian charism and heritage for teachers and other educators in the Lasallian ministries from Toronto, Ontario, to Baymon, Puerto Rico. In addition, he engages in other spaces to support educators in the mission field of Catholic education.
Brother Ernest’s past ministry assignments include Vice President for Mission, Diversity, and Inclusion for seven years at La Salle University in Philadelphia; a member of the teaching faculty at three secondary schools – La Salle College High School outside Philadelphia, West Catholic Preparatory High School in Philadelphia, and Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh. He is the founding director of Central Catholic’s Baginski Scholars Program, an interdisciplinary studies endeavor for highly motivated students.
In 2010, he was the Convenor of the Lasallian Convocation on the Rights of the Child at the United Nations in New York.
He holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, master’s degrees in liberal studies from Georgetown University, in education from La Salle University, in international affairs from The George Washington University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Loyola University New Orleans.
A native of New Orleans, Brother Ernest's interests include political and international affairs, human rights and justice education and advocacy, liturgy, and ecclesiology. He is an avid traveler with an acute love of train travel, in addition a love of reading books and walking unplugged.