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Katy (Scott) Zatsick
6300 N. Wayne Ave. Fl 1
Chicago IL 60660-1308
katyzatsick@sbcglobal.net

Katy Zatsick Scott is a peace activist from Chicago. She is active as a member of Military Families Speak Out, Grandmothers for Peace, Pax Christi and Codepink. Katy’s son, Captain Jason Scott US Army was Very Seriously Injured(VSI) in Iraq October 14, 2005. Katy spent 8 months at Walter Reed while Jason began his healing from loosing his right arm and right eye. While at Walter Reed Katy kept a blog journal which can be found at

www.captjason.blogspot.com. Katy with Jason were interviewed while at Walter Reed for a documentary on military health care “Fighting for Life” to be released October 2007.

Katy marched against the Vietnam War and knew early on that “War is not healthy for children or any living thing.” She has attended the Chicago Tuesday Peace Vigils sponsored by 8^th Day Center for peace for 6 years where over 200,000 flyers have been given out for peace and justice making. Katy has made presentations at the Faith and Resistance Retreat in DC, Voluntown Peace Trust and St. Peter’s College, NJ and at events and venues around Chicago. Katy has appeared on local TV and radio speaking for peace. Katy has given witness for better health care and benefits for veterans at the forum held by Senator Dick Durbin in Chicago, March 2007. She was a support person for the Occupation Project in Chicago, February to April 2007. Katy spoke March 22, 2007 at Loyola University Chicago conference Peacemaking: In the Time of Terror. Katy appears in a video flyer for the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war peace march which may be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VtUBbx73oI. Co-facilitator of the Women-Church Convergence Conference Ministry of Peacemaking workshop, August 2007. Speaker for the IVAW: Iraq Summer Campaign: focus on influencing legislators who have supported funding the war; appearances in Springfield, Champaign, and Lake Forest, IL. She was on the planning committee for the Pax Christi Peace Conference and a speaker, September 2007. Katy is on the planning committee for the Midwest regional march against the war, October 2007 (one of 11 planned across the USA for that day.) Katy will speak for Pax Christi at the SOAWatch Ft. Benning GA in November 2007.

As a hospice chaplain for five years, Katy knows the finality of death and the preciousness of life. She speaks of the suffering of war to families-emotional, spiritual, physical, and social losses. Katy is especially focused on support of families and soldiers and their healing from the wounds of war. Katy is interested in the health effects of depleted uranium on soldiers and civilians who are exposed to it and also its effects on the earth itself. Katy argues that humanity must evolve beyond war.

Education

Wayne State University June, Bachelors of Science-Business Administration, 1973
Michigan State University, Masters in Labor and Industrial Relations, 1975
Loyola University-New Orleans, Masters of Pastoral Studies, 1997

Katy is eager to speak for peace and the end to war and occupation. She is willing to travel, do not hesitate to contact her.