Patricia Harvat, OP served as a General Councilor for the Adrian Dominican Sisters from 2016-2022. Prior to that, she was in pastoral ministry in five mission chapels in Puerto Rico and taught in the Head Start program. She also ministered in Peru and later in the Dominican Republic teaching theology to young women leaders. Ministries in the United States included serving as Director of Lay Ministry Formation for the Hispanic Ministry Office of the Diocese of Cleveland, Vice President of Dominican Catholic Identity at St. Mary’s Dominican High School in New Orleans, and Director of Formation for the Adrian Dominican Congregation.