Sister Mary Ann LoGiudice, RSM

Sister Mary Ann LoGiudice, RSM is Executive Director of Community Maternity Services, an agency of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany. 

Community Maternity Services is a full spectrum family support services agency that provides a continuum of services, both residential and community-based. Throughout the Albany Diocese, the organization works to provide assistance for pregnant and parenting teenage girls and their infants and toddlers, children in need of foster care and adoptive homes, families seeking to adopt children, and families in crisis. 

Sister Mary Ann has been with Community Maternity Services for 37 years, serving in various capacities and becoming Executive Director in 1990. Prior to that, she served as Executive Director of Arbor House, a halfway house for women released from incarceration, as Outreach Program Coordinator for St. Patrick’s Parish, and as a second grade teacher at the Holy Cross School. 

Sister Mary Ann joined the Sisters of Mercy in 1965, and has been actively involved in the Mercy Community since that time. She has worked on various committees and boards over the last 30 years, including the Support Ministries for Persons with AIDS, the Community AIDS Partnership of the Capital Region and the Names Project. Sister Mary Ann had the privilege of adopting Barbara, a child with HIV/AIDS, who lived with her from 1987 until her death in 1993. 

Sister Mary Ann attended Maria College and The College of St. Rose, where she earned a Bachelor of Education. She received her Masters in Human Services from Russell Sage College.