Deana Tighe

Deanna Tighe counts herself to be one of the lucky ones to have been born and reared in Seattle. After high school, she studied Religious Studies and Political Science at Hamline University in St. Paul, Mn and Glasgow University in Glasgow, Scotland. Graduating Cum Laude with her bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and Political Science, Deanna went on to pursue her Master of Divinity degree at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Ct. with an emphasis in New Testament Studies and the Pauline Epistles.

Her time at Yale was deeply influential in her spiritual journey and was where she was received into the Catholic Church after having been baptized Dutch Reform as an infant. After receiving her MDiv, Deanna felt called to serve alongside the poor and disenfranchised in a more concrete manner. She joined the Maryknoll Lay Association as a Lay Missioner and lived in Tanzania and Kenya, ministering in both rural and urban parishes during her stay there. After moving back stateside, she worked for Catholic Relief Services as a project manager for their Strategic Plan’s Justice Strategy and had the great honor to facilitate international interreligious workshops on Catholic Social Teaching from Pakistan to Jerusalem/West Bank. Deanna has also had the privilege of serving as Director of Youth Ministry, a Campus Minister at Duquesne University, and a pastoral associate for stewardship before beginning her position at Christ Our Hope in 2017.

Animated by the Christian call to love our brothers and sisters, Deanna attempts to put her faith into concrete action and considers it a privilege to serve alongside the many loving parishioners of Christ Our Hope in Downtown Seattle.