About Sue
Before I was 6 years-old, I would regularly go with my mom to our Catholic church on Friday mornings to do what mom calls, “holy housework.” Like my grandmother before her, my mom was a volunteer sacristan, a lay person who prepares the altar space each week. We refilled holy water fonts, ironed altar cloths, cleaned candles. As a result, I have always been at home in sacred spaces, always deeply on the inside.
Bojdak is pronounced “Boy-dock”
Mine was a faith-filled, seriously practicing, progressive Catholic family committed to righteous living and doing good works in the community. At age 16, my feminism and my call to spiritual leadership ran up against the Catholic church’s refusal to ordain women. And I began a religious and spiritual journey that led me through feminist and liberation theologies, study abroad in Jerusalem, divinity school, and ultimately to an innovative queer synagogue in San Francisco where I converted to Judaism in my mid 20s.
There I learned how to lift off from the bedrock of tradition to co-create the spiritual and religious practices that can hold the complexity of our contemporary lives and identities, making space for each of us to see, celebrate and cultivate their own wholeness. For more than 25 years my work has been to support others on that journey, as a Jewish educator, as a spiritual director, and more recently as a reiki practitioner.
The journey continues. I invite you to join me.
My experience and training include:
- BA in Religious Studies from SUNY Stony Brook
- MA in Divinity from the University of Chicago
- Adult Education Credential from San Francisco State University
- Certificate in Spiritual Direction from the San Francisco Theological Seminary
- Reiki Training at the East Bay Healing House
- Over 25 years of experience as a Jewish educator learning, teaching and growing with people of all ages
- Over 25 years of queer parenting and partnering
- A lifetime of spiritual seeking and study