Sami Scott

Area Director, The Americas

Sami joined the Maryknoll Lay Missioners in 1996 where she first served in Venezuela. There, Sami started a community food cooperative, worked with youth in a music ministry and did pastoral outreach in the rural areas. In 2008, Sami transferred to Cambodia. Utilizing her administrative knowledge and experience, she worked as a finance manager first at the Seedlings of Hope HIV/AIDS Program, and later at Boeung Tumpun Community Health and Education Project.

In October 2018, Sami became the first Maryknoll lay missioner in the Caribbean as she moved to Gros Morne, Haiti. Her ministry became the Hen house; an organization that helped provide local eggs for the town of Gros Morne, preventing dangerous treks for the population. Unfortunately, due to the violent uprisings and lack of decent security and protection, Sami had to leave Haiti in the Spring of 2024.

Sami became the Area Director for the missioners of North, South, and Central America beginning in June, 2025. You can read more of her as a Lay Missioner here.