As the University Chaplain, Eldridge coordinates activities in Kay Spiritual Life Center. An ordained United Methodist minister, Joe Eldridge arrived at AU having spent more than twenty five years working in the public policy arena as advocate and analyst on international human rights and humanitarian issues. In 1991 he established the Washington office of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights; during the mid-1980s he worked in Honduras consulting on human rights and development issues; and after a three year sojourn in Chile working with the mission agency of the United Methodist Church, in the early 1970s he co-founded the Washington Office on Latin America and served as its first director.