Meet Our Staff

Meet Founder & Instructor Jennifer Prather

My CV
My References

Ever since my Confirmation in the Catholic Church as a teenager, I have loved learning about my faith. Twenty years ago this love compelled me to seek a position to teach theology at the high school level, a job I still love and do today at St. Joseph’s Academy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Shortly after arriving in Baton Rouge I married my wonderful husband, Duffy. He and I currently reside in Denham Springs, Louisiana. While teaching full time at the Academy, I earned my masters degree, graduating summa cum laude, in Theological studies from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana.

During my studies, I fell further in love with my faith through many classes, papers and research regarding Christian anthropology. This research led me to create an original curriculum based on Saint John Paul II’s Man and Woman He Created Them, popularly known as Theology of the Body, called Image & Gift: Christian Anthropology Based on Theology of the Body.

My love for Christian anthropology also led me to the exciting endeavor of serving as a Research Scholar for the International Institute of Culture and Gender Studies, a position I served in for three years. Through my work for the Institute I continued my research with a particular focus on femininity and complementarity as well as gender identity.

In my personal formation I have been graced and enriched, but most of all have experienced the call from Jesus to work to bring Him to others through my membership of more than twenty years in the Community of Jesus Crucified.

All these experiences have made me passionate about bringing knowledge of the Catholic faith to anyone wishing to learn more and go deeper in their journey with Jesus.

Meet the Team

  • Father Taylor Sanford

    SPIRITUAL ADVISOR

    I was born and raised in Baton Rouge in a Catholic home with my younger brother, attending St. George School and Church. In high school I was an avid runner and proud member of the “orange wave” of Catholic High under the legendary Coach Pete Boudreaux.

    I first felt the Lord calling me to the priesthood in my senior year during a time of Eucharistic Adoration on a summer mission trip in 2010 through the St. George youth group. But lacking trust, I just pushed the thought to the back of my mind and went on to LSU to study chemical engineering. It was at the Catholic Student Center on campus (Christ the King) that I fell in love with Jesus Christ and desired to lay down my life for His Bride, the Church. But it was not that easy of a decision. It was accompanied with much prayer, discernment, and typical millennial angst, until my heart finally found peace in entering seminary after graduation. "It was not you who chose me, says the Lord, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last."

  • Jassy DeMetz

    PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANT

    Jassy is a daughter of God and an aunt to three. She comes to Image and Gift with an extensive customer service and administrative work background and is excited to be able to utilize those skills in service to Image and Gift Ministries. She lives in Lafayette, LA, where she is in college studying software development.

  • Anita Trahan

    EVENTS ASSISTANT

    Anita is a daughter of God, a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She comes to Image and Gift having previous experience in real estate and medical billing. She brings her gifts and talents to the new role of Events Assistant, which will include traveling with Image and Gift for talks, presentations, and retreats and to conferences to promote Image and Gift.