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Kat Peters

Kat Peters

MEd, MA, Assistant Director of the Institute for Leadership and Service

Valparaiso University

Kat Peters, MEd, MA, is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Leadership and Service at Valparaiso University. Kat is a Deaconess of the Lutheran Diaconal Association’s diaconate, and her work focuses on experiential learning and vocational discernment, cross-cultural engagement, and rural development.

Published Articles

Article

Finding the Miracle in the Intersection of Mission and Limitations: Lessons from Latin America

Kat Peters

No. 61 · Spring 2025

Peters draws on her time interning with Lutheran World Relief and leading a study abroad program in Central America — including a Costa Rican women’s farm cooperative whose ecotourism project was “unprofitable” but life-giving — to argue that the intersection of God’s preference for struggle and God’s desire for abundant life is itself the miracle higher education can claim amid scarcity.

Kat Peters

Published Articles

Finding the Miracle in the Intersection of Mission and Limitations: Lessons from Latin America