Daniel Everson, SJ

Dan Everson, SJ, was born in St. Louis and baptized shortly thereafter in a small chapel at Jesuit Hall on the campus of Saint Louis University. He attended grade school at Our Lady of Sorrows in South St. Louis before enrolling at St. Louis University High School, where he served as sports editor of the school newspaper. Dan’s interest in journalism led him to the University of Missouri, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in both journalism and Spanish. While at “Mizzou,” he became an active parishioner at the St. Thomas More Newman Center and began to notice a call to the priesthood. Dan first discerned with the Dominican Friars who ran the Newman Center, but he took to heart the words of an elder Jesuit he met during his discernment: “Don’t forget about us!”

After graduating from Mizzou, Dan joined the Alum Service Corps (ASC) of the Jesuits’ Missouri Province, which afforded him an opportunity to spend ample time with Jesuits and discern whether he might be called to become a Jesuit himself. As an ASC volunteer, teaching sophomore English at De Smet Jesuit High School, Dan fell in love with the work of Jesuit education. That fall, during a “Come and See” retreat at the same Jesuit Hall where he was baptized, Dan decided to apply to the Society of Jesus. Dan entered the novitiate in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, in 2013. After making first vows, he completed a master’s degree in social philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Dan thrived as a regent at Arrupe Jesuit High School in Denver, where he taught freshman theology and coordinated the community service program. Dan served as a deacon at St. Ambrose Parish in Berkeley, California, while completing a Master of Divinity degree at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. After ordination, he will return to Arrupe Jesuit High School to serve as assistant principal for mission.