Joye Gros, OP is a Dominican Sister of Peace. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and joined the Dominican Sisters of St. Catharine, Kentucky in 1965.

Joye's ministries have included elementary and adult education, adult spiritual and ministry formation, vocation ministry, and congregational leadership. As a pastoral associate, she facilitated grief groups, coordinated outreach and service ministries and trained Ministers of Care and bereavement ministers. Joye worked in the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Diocese of Joliet teaching and facilitating theological reflection, facilitating groups and teaching in the Lay Ministry Training Programs. She helped design and implement the Institute for Spiritual Leadership program for the Diocese of Joliet.

Joye received her Masters of Religious Education from Seattle University and her Doctor of Ministry from the University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, IL. Joye served on the board of WELLSTREAMS: A Center for Feminine Spirituality. During her congregational leadership terms, Joye served on both the Member Board and Board of Directors of the CDN.

Megan McElroy, OP is a Dominican Sister of the Grand Rapids congregation and has been in community for 23 years. Megan first met the Dominican Family at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids in the early 1980s. She shares how the witness and joy of the sisters and friars (from the Central Province) are what drew her to community, and she has not regretted one day of it!

After spending her novitiate at the CDN (1989-1990), Megan served in parish pastoral ministry in two dioceses in Michigan for 13 years; and then after earning her MDiv at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, she unexpectedly found herself teaching high school theology at one of the RSCJ schools in Chicago for four years. Just like preaching, it wasn't a ministry Megan went looking for, but she did come to enjoy it and continue to appreciate the lessons it taught her.

Megan began as co-director at the CDN in 2010 and continues to thank God for the opportunity to serve in this ministry. To share Dominican life with our newer members is exciting and challenging, grace and blessing. In addition to her responsibilities at the CDN this year, Megan is also team teaching the Foundations of Preaching course at Aquinas Institute with Vincentian Fr. Dan Harris.