Beau Guedry

Beau Guedry, S.J. is a Fellow at the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans, where he assists with JSRI’s prison education programming along with teaching and advocacy on Loyola’s campus and beyond on the core issues of justice, race, poverty, and the criminal legal system.

Beau is a Jesuit scholastic, a member of the Society of Jesus in formation to become a Catholic priest. His passion for Catholic social thought and a faith that does justice influenced his desire to become a Jesuit, and to support the work of JSRI during his formation. Beau has over five years of experience teaching and ministering at Jesuit schools, where after eleven years as a student in them he developed his skills and commitment to Jesuit education that forms men and women for and with others.

While in formation studying philosophy at Fordham University in New York, Beau worked for three years at the Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center, which serves the Crotona neighborhood in The Bronx by offering support on a range of issues, including food insecurity, community services, and child development. There, he helped to design and operate programming that connected Crotona residents with access to healthy food, enrichment for elementary students, and other community support, both directly and through connections with other initiatives at the university.

Beau earned his B.S. in Molecular Biology and Biological Chemistry from Saint Louis University in 2016, and his M.A in Philosophy and Society from Fordham University in 2025. His capstone research formulated a dialogue between three traditions in continental philosophy on the role of epistemic humility and curiosity in interpersonal relationships.