Courtney Esteves (she/her) is a third-year Master of Divinity student at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School (ANS at YDS).

Courtney is formed by two decades of Catholic education, as well as many years spent within lay-led Catholic ministries such as her spiritual home, Benincasa Community. A proud alumna of Saint Gabriel School (Bronx, NY), Marymount School (New York, NY), and the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA), she is grateful for a faith infused with the charisms of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary and the Jesuits.

After graduating from Holy Cross in 2019, where she studied Psychology and Religious Studies, she returned to her alma mater Marymount to serve for two years as a Religion teacher on the Spiritual Life team. In 2021, she left the northeast to share life in the L’Arche Jacksonville community, before moving back north for divinity school.

A significant dimension of her time in ANS at YDS has been a welcome into the United Church of Christ (UCC). She spent last summer as Pastoral Resident in the Waquoit Congregational Church, an open-and-affirming UCC congregation in East Falmouth, MA.

Now immersed in her final year of seminary, her current favorite areas of study are liberation theologies (especially disability theology), trauma-informed pastoral care, and the Catholic Worker movement.