The mission of Catholic Charities USA is to exercise leadership in assisting its membership, particularly the diocesan Catholic Charities agencies and affiliate members, in their mission of service, advocacy and convening.
Board of Trustees
CCUSA is governed by a Board of Trustees, many of whom are leaders in local Catholic Charities agencies across the country. Learn more.
Executive Leadership
Rev. Larry Snyder, President of Catholic Charities USA
Father Larry Snyder is President of Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), the national office of more than 160 local Catholic Charities agencies nationwide that provide help and create hope to more than 10 million people a year, regardless of their religious, social, or economic backgrounds. Since joining CCUSA in 2005, Snyder has been responsible for leading the overall direction of the Catholic Charities movement and the strategic leadership of CCUSA. He oversees CCUSA’s work to reduce poverty in America, encouraging government, business, and academia to raise the issue of poverty in the national conversation.
Snyder is the author of Think and Act Anew: How Poverty in America Affects Us All and What We Can Do About It. The book calls on our nation to commit to supporting innovative approaches to combating poverty and spotlights effective and efficient programs being run by Catholic Charities agencies across the country.
Just six months after his arrival at CCUSA, Snyder led the network’s response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, in which more than 110 Catholic Charities in the Gulf Coast and beyond provided immediate and long-term aid to more than one million hurricane victims. In 2007, he was named to the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, which oversees the Church’s charitable activities around the world. He was also president of Caritas North America from 2006-2011.
In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Snyder to the President’s Advisory Council of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. In addition, he has been recognized twice by The Non Profit Times in its “Power and Influence Top 50” of non-profit leaders.
Prior to joining CCUSA, Snyder served as executive director of Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, the largest private provider of social services in the Twin Cities. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in 1988 and was a high school teacher for eight years prior to joining the seminary.
Snyder earned a bachelor’s degree from Illinois Benedictine College in Lisle, Ill. He also holds a master’s degree of divinity from the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity and a master’s of public administration from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
In 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania.
Snyder serves as the chair for Leadership 18 and is on the board of the Independent Sector. He is also a trustee of America’s Promise Alliance and is he is in residence at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
Candy S. Hill, Executive Vice President, Social Policy and External Affairs
Candy S. Hill is responsible for all external-facing communications and advocacy efforts for Catholic Charities USA. As Executive Vice President of Social Policy and External Affairs, she guides the organization’s government relations efforts, represents CCUSA on Capitol Hill and with policy makers and the media, and directs development and fundraising efforts.
Hill has been a member of the executive leadership team of CCUSA since 2005, serving for seven years as Senior Vice President of Social Policy and Government Affairs. She has delivered keynote addresses to the Holy See at the United Nations, the Northwest Area Foundation, and many faith-based and anti-poverty organizations across America. She also has represented the Catholic Charities network at national forums, including a presentation on military families with First Lady Michelle Obama.
Prior to joining CCUSA, Hill led Catholic Charities of Monroe County, Mich., serving for five years as president and CEO. She previously worked for the Archdiocese of Detroit as the diocesan director of agencies and institutions, and spent more than 25 years with the State of Michigan’s Department of Human Services.
A native of Michigan, Hill earned a juris doctor degree from the University of Detroit, Mercy School of Law, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Alma College in Michigan.
Keith Styles, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel
Keith Styles joined Catholic Charities USA as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel in May 2013. In his role, he is responsible for day-to-day operations of one of the nation’s largest networks of faith-based social service providers, overseeing CCUSA’s efforts around mission, programs and services, disaster operations, membership, finance, and administration, as well as being responsible for all of the organization’s legal matters.
Prior to joining CCUSA full-time, Styles led the team that served as outside general counsel for CCUSA for eight years. He helped draft the National Opportunity and Community Renewal Act, legislation introduced during CCUSA’s centennial celebration, and personally took part in visits to the Ninth Ward in New Orleans as part of recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina.
Before joining CCUSA, Styles was a partner at Arent Fox LLP and was the leader of the firm’s national real estate practice group. He worked on high-profile real estate deals in the Washington, D.C., area, and also worked with the Navy and the Air Force on base closure and housing privatization matters. Prior to Arent Fox, Styles served as the managing partner of the Washington office of a national law firm.
Styles is admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, the Virginia Bar, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He received his juris doctor from Georgetown University, and graduated cum laude from Yale University, receiving his bachelor’s in political science.
Senior Leadership
Jack Jackson, Senior Vice President for Finance/CFO
As CCUSA’s senior vice president for finance, John “Jack” Jackson oversees the organization’s financial operations.
Prior to joining CCUSA, Jackson served for more than fives years at Catholic Charities of St. Paul/Minneapolis as the agency’s chief financial officer, chief operating officer, and chief administrative officer.
At the agency, he created and directed a new strategic planning process that resulted in a more focused service delivery based on core competencies, community engagement, mission, and program leadership. He also redefined and improved the organization’s annual planning and review processes.
Jackson’s other experience includes serving as: chief operating officer and director of finance and administration for Search Institute of Minneapolis; operations manager and budget manager for Fingerhut Companies in Minnetonka, MN; controller for Paradigm Publishing in Eden Prairie, MN; and controller and senior financial analyst for EMS/McGraw Hill Eden Prairie, MN.
Jackson holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and a BA in Accounting from Tennessee State University in Nashville.
Jean Beil, Senior Vice President for Programs and Services
As senior vice president for programs, Beil oversees CCUSA’s support to its member agencies in the provision of services to the poor and vulnerable.
A transplant from New Jersey, Beil worked for local Catholic Charities there for over 18 years, including serving as the director for housing and social concerns from 2000 to 2005. In that position, she oversaw a division that encompassed 130 shelter beds, more than 100 units of low-income rental and transitional housing, and 14 other programs for low-income individuals and families.
From 1996 to 2000, Beil was the agency’s program director of the Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), which used a multi-disciplinary team to treat and to provide psycho-rehabilitation to persons with serious and persistent mental illness. And, for two years, she served as the agency’s 450 case management coordinator. The program helped people with serious mental illness reintegrate into the community.
Her other previous work experience includes serving as a clinician at the Mt. Carmel Guild Community Mental Health Center in Jersey City, NJ; a counselor with the Mt. Carmel Guild School in Kearny, NJ; family shelter coordinator for the St. Lucy’s Homeless Program of Catholic Community Services of the Archdiocese of Newark, NJ; program administrator for Francis House of the Office of Social Ministry of Diocese of Metuchen in Perth Amboy, NJ; and resident program coordinator for Morehouse for New Hampshire Catholic Charities in Manchester, NH.
She has dual master’s degrees in Social Work from NYU and in Religion from LaSalle and spent her early career as a member of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity teaching middle school and doing parish ministry.
Rachel Lustig, Senior Vice President of Mission and Ministry
Rachel Lustig is the Senior Vice President of Mission and Ministry at CCUSA. In this role, Rachel is responsible for grounding and inspiring transformative leadership within Catholic Charities and its extended network, drawing on the Gospel call and Catholic social teaching to reduce poverty and build a more just and compassionate society. She oversees the Parish Social Ministry, Catholic Identity, Racial Equality and Training departments of CCUSA. Rachel speaks in dioceses across the country on Catholic social teaching and parish social ministry.
Rachel began her tenure at CCUSA in 2003 as the parish social ministry associate and served as the director of parish social ministry from 2004-2009. Prior to CCUSA, Rachel was the director of finances for Hogar Santa Cruz, a children’s home, in Santiago, Chile through the Holy Cross Associate program.
Rachel received her Bachelor’s of Business Administration at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and her Master’s of Public Administration at George Mason University in Virginia.
