In both his administrative and academic work, Arroyo assists in moving the Jesuit School forward with the local and international church outreach segments of our programs.

As administrator for the Program for Advancing Cross-Cultural Ministry Initiatives, Arroyo's responsibilities include making JSTB connections through international and local immersion programs, public forums and a speakers' bureau for outreach to the local church, scholarships to prepare under-represented minorities for church ministry, and faculty grants for training in cross-cultural teaching and research. He is also responsible for an ongoing longitudinal study to track and evaluate the progress of these new programs. These new programs are funded by a recently-awarded five-year "Making Connections" grant from the Lilly Endowment.

Before his move to California, Arroyo served in various administrative, teaching, and ministerial positions: Senior Fellow in Ethics in Public Policy at the Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University; Professor of Sociology at Loyola University, New Orleans; Editor of the monthly Blueprint for Social Justice at Loyola's Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice; Provincial superior of the New Orleans Province Jesuits, superior of Jesuit formation programs, and missionary service in Paraguay.

In 2002, he published the results of his research in the field of Ethics in Public Policy in the book The Ethics of Lobbying: Organized Interests, Political Power, and the Common Good (Georgetown University Press). His teaching and research interests include Catholic Social Thought, The Sociology of Religion, Religion and Social Change, Faith and Culture, and Ethics in Public Policy. Click here to view Arroyo's full curriculum vitae.

From 1997 to 2004, Arroyo edited the monthly Blueprint for Social Justice at Loyola University New Orleans as part of his social justice ministry at Loyola's Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice. He also served as resident chaplain in Loyola's Cabra Hall, and occasionally offered courses at Loyola, especially in Catholic Social Thought. He also served as minister of the Jesuit Community at Loyola University, and as New Orleans' support person for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.

From 1998 through 2004 Arroyo also directed a research project on Ethics in Public Policy in collaboration with the Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University, coordinating a team of scholars and practitioners with the goal of developing a set of ethical guidelines for the profession of public policy advocacy (a.k.a. "lobbying"). Georgetown University Press published the first book coming from this project, The Ethics of Lobbying: Organized Interests, Political Advocacy, and the Common Good in September 2002. You may want to download an order form (PDF) for the book. You can also read a summary of the Woodstock Forum on this topic, as well as an article from Loyola Today about this project. There is also a recent article about this project in the National Jesuit News.

He has a Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University and theological degrees from Woodstock College when it was affiliated with Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He completed his undergraduate studies in sociology and philosophy at Spring Hill College. Arroyo was ordained a Jesuit priest on June 7, 1975. In the summer of 2000, he celebrated his 25th anniversary as a priest.

Arroyo is particularly interested in furthering the Jesuit mission of faith doing justice through administration, research and activism. A man of many hobbies, his current personal avocations include bicycling, genealogy, photography, short wave radio, and watercolors.