Jenn Svetlik, 23, is originally from Houston, Texas and is currently working in the organizing department at Sojourners and is living in intentional community with the other Sojourners interns in Washington, DC. She has lived previously in a Catholic Worker community and the life of Jesus and Catholic social teaching inspire her peace and justice work, including the fast for justice to close Guantanamo. She believes in the immense power of an organized community, united by common humanity and in common action, seeking the common good, to be the impetus for positive change. She fasts to increase personal awareness and solidarity with those suffering at Guantanamo and around the world from violence caused by U.S. policy, and in repentance for the social sin that exists through U.S. action.