Jess Echeverry is a women and family advocate and speaker. She is a survivor of parental divorce and alcoholism, as well as emotional and physical abuse. She suffered sexual abuse beginning at the age of 10 and her testimony includes dark times of sexual violence, becoming pregnant at 16, being forced to give up her baby and experiencing almost 3 years of homelessness on the streets of South Florida. In 1997 she met the man she would eventually marry; this man would help her create an environment of authentic love that enabled her healing journey, her relationship with Jesus Christ and her eventual forgiveness and love for her attackers. She converted to Catholicism in 2008.
Her husband Charlie is a Permanent Deacon for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Together Deacon Charlie & Jess have 5 children: 2 teenage boys still at home, 2 young adults out in the world, 1 lovely soul in Heaven and 2 English Bulldogs. Jess is the founder and Executive Director of SOFESA, a 501c(3) non-profit ministry that has been serving Southern California homeless and low-income children and their families since 1999.
Jess has previously appeared on EWTN's The Catholic View for Women, has been interviewed by Spirit Radio's Morning Show host Jen Brown and Guadalupe Radio's Morning Glory host Gloria Purvis. She has had the opportunity to share her testimony in various events throughout the country and has also been featured in a Catholic Answers Focus podcast with then host, Patrick Coffin. Inspired by the good things God has wrought in her life, she is presently penning her first book titled ‘Dazzled” detailing her life experiences in a way that lifts up and enlightens others who are searching for ways to heal. It should be available Winter 2019. She is a strong and effective speaker who has been able to, with the help of God's grace, turn those past experiences, and all the healing that she has received along the way, into real, loving help for others.
Her husband Charlie is a Permanent Deacon for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Together Deacon Charlie & Jess have 5 children: 2 teenage boys still at home, 2 young adults out in the world, 1 lovely soul in Heaven and 2 English Bulldogs. Jess is the founder and Executive Director of SOFESA, a 501c(3) non-profit ministry that has been serving Southern California homeless and low-income children and their families since 1999.
Jess has previously appeared on EWTN's The Catholic View for Women, has been interviewed by Spirit Radio's Morning Show host Jen Brown and Guadalupe Radio's Morning Glory host Gloria Purvis. She has had the opportunity to share her testimony in various events throughout the country and has also been featured in a Catholic Answers Focus podcast with then host, Patrick Coffin. Inspired by the good things God has wrought in her life, she is presently penning her first book titled ‘Dazzled” detailing her life experiences in a way that lifts up and enlightens others who are searching for ways to heal. It should be available Winter 2019. She is a strong and effective speaker who has been able to, with the help of God's grace, turn those past experiences, and all the healing that she has received along the way, into real, loving help for others.