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Peggy Abood was born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, and graduated from Saint Mary’s College with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Religious Studies. While at Saint Mary’s, Peggy was active in student government and helped start Clarissa Dalloway’s Coffee House. After graduating from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Peggy spent two years in university administration-development and alumni relations at the Law School at the University of Chicago before joining the Private Bank at the Bank of America in Chicago as a Vice President for Business Development and Trust Administration. At the Bank, Peggy focused on servicing the Bank’s largest private clients (individuals and foundations). For the last five years, Peggy has been an Associate Counsel in the Law and Public Policy Division of MCI WORLDCOM Communications. Peggy manages the company’s outsourcing practice as well as many of its largest corporate relationships as a drafter, negotiator, and adviser to senior executives. Peggy’s many interests include travel, reading, cooking, and logging time as a student pilot.
Leila Ahmed is the first person appointed to fill the professorship in Women’s Studies in Religion at Harvard Divinity School. Prior to this appointment, she was professor of Women’s Studies and Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where she had been since 1981. While at the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Ahmed served as director of the Women’s Studies Program from 1992 to
1995, and as director of the Near Eastern Studies Program from 1991 to 1992. She was a distinguished visiting professor in 1992 at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. In 1997 she was elected to a life membership at Clare Hall in the University of Cambridge in England and also received a distinguished faculty fellowship award for the 1996–97 academic year. Professor Ahmed has been a member of the WSRP Advisory Committee since 1992. Her latest book, A Border Passage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), has been described by The New York Times as "a richly insightful account of the inner conflicts of a generation coming of age during and after the collapse of European imperialism."
Judith Blackburn is a retired Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies. Throughout her career she made an effort to introduce her students to ecological, racial, and socio-economic issues that were otherwise ignored in the curriculum. For years she has been active in community projects, often using her academic skills to promote ideas that would inspire others. For instance, she wrote a biography of Cincinnati peace activist Maurice McCrackin, a kind and gentle man who had been de-frocked by the Presbyterian Church for his stands defending civil rights and protesting militarism. Judith is a board member of IMAGO, a grassroots ecological group that has encouraged community participation in the development of an urban ecological neighborhood. This past year she has been involved in the Northside Neighborhood Community Council Education Committee, which works to improve Cincinnati Public Schools. She is not only the Board President of the Women's Research and Development Center (WRDC), but she also lives in their renovated school building, Chase Commons.
Currently President of BCA, Ms. Bolen is the former Director of International Programs at Brown University where she served from 1992 to 2005. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in American Civilization at Brown focusing on American Women in Study Abroad, 1860-1914. She has been a key figure in the professionalization of international education over the past decade and has served in key positions with NAFSA and the Forum, as well as being active in the Association of International Education Administrators, the European Association of International Educators, and Women Administrators in Higher Education. In addition to her current historical work on the role of women in study abroad, Ms. Bolen is a noted expert on outcomes assessment in international education. She has published several articles on this and other topics, and is the author of the soon to be published Guide to Outcomes Assessment in International Educaiton. She has an MA in International Education from Lesley College and is ABD in American Civilization at Brown University. For fun she likes to bicycle across countries and has been known to design and knit her own sweaters.
A commitment to education and equity is the driving force in Gladys Brown's professional and personal life. Currently, she is a Senior Fellow at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) the Executive Director of Brown and Associates, An Equity and Diversity Consulting Firm in Washington, D.C and a member of the Board of Trustees for Vermont’s Goddard College. Brown recently completed a term on the American Council on Education (ACE) Presidential Commission on Women in Higher Education, and a three-year commitment as a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Board of Advocacy and Public Policy Interest (BAPPI). Awards have been national and campus based. National awards include a citation from the White House for the University of Maryland Diversity Initiative and Diversity Web and an ACE NETWORK award for a three-book series for university presidents. Hundreds of workshops and keynotes have been conducted on institutional transformation, diversity, equity, and leadership development throughout the United States and in Germany, China, Norway and South Africa.
Her education includes a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the University of Maryland School of Law and a Bachelor's degree from Morgan State University, complemented by the Harvard Development Management Program and the Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education.
Johnnella Butler, currently Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Spelman College, is recognized for her work in ethnic studies, women’s studies, curriculum change, and development. She is responsible for overseeing academic departments and programs, formulating educational policies and recruiting and orienting faculty. Prior to that she was an Associate Dean and Associate Vice Provost
in The Graduate School at the University of Washington as well as Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Smith College. A noted scholar specializing in African American literature, Butler is considered one of the pioneers in diversity and curriculum transformation, and a leader in bringing together the content of ethnic studies and women’s studies. An author and former concert soprano, the Virginia native attended the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee, Mass., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature with a minor in Spanish American Literature in 1968; from there she earned a master of arts in teaching at the Johns Hopkins University in 1969. She later was awarded her doctorate in Afro-American Literature and Multicultural Studies in 1979 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Butler was one of the three editors for the first-ever Encyclopedia of American Studies. She is also a contributor and editor of Color-Line to Borderlands: the Matrix of American Ethnic Studies, and Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies, Dr. Butler is an internationally recognized expert on ethnic studies and is the Director of a Ford Foundation project to write a book defining ethnic studies and its role in higher education.
Denise Cavanaugh has been intrigued by the ways that organizations prosper, decline, and renew ever since her early assignments as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru, Parent Coordinator with Head Start in Chicago, and Program Officer with VISTA in West Virginia. All three organizations provided a first-hand, front line view of the challenges of organization development. Denise stepped into the corporate world in 1974 by starting a management consulting firm in Washington, DC that provided organization development services to non-profit groups, health-care organizations, entrepreneurs, and Fortune 500 companies. In 1985, Ann Hagan and Jane Pierson joined Denise to create Cavanaugh, Hagan & Pierson, Inc. This long running partnership has developed into a smart, trusted ally for organization leaders across many sectors of the economy. She is a graduate of Saint Mary's College where she earned a B.A. degree in Economics and Sociology and has a folder full of certificates from an eclectic mix of professional development seminars.
Margaret Corbett Daley earned her bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Dayton and holds honorary degrees of Doctor of Humane Letters from Columbia College (Chicago) and the Catholic Theological Union. In 1971, when Margaret Corbett was introduced to Richard M. Daley, she was an Account Executive with Xerox Learning Systems, part of the Xerox Education Group. He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1972.
They have both been dedicated to public service ever since. In addition to her role as First Lady of the City of Chicago, Maggie Daley participates in the following:
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President, Pathways Awareness Foundation
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Chair, Chicago Cultural Center Foundation
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Chair, Gallery 37
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Chair, After School Matters
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Board Member, The Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago
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Board of Directors, Golden Apple Foundation
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Board of Directors, Children at the Crossroads Foundation
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Member of the President’s Council, Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics
Superintendent of Benton Harbor Area School District since 2002, Paula Dawning left a highly placed corporate position, Vice President of Sales at AT& T, to begin a new career in a challenged public school system. This responsibility has utilized her corporate leadership experience, her Saint Mary’s College educational foundation, and her personal passion for giving back to her community. Improving leadership in our country’s large urban school systems is one of her many achievements.
Ande Diaz is Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Intercultural Center at Roger Williams University. At Roger Wiliams, Associate Dean Diaz oversees the Intercultural Center, the on-campus hub for multicultural and spriitual programs. Ande was a student affairs dean at Princeton (1997-2004) and assistant director of Career Services at Harvard (1990-1997). She wrote The Harvard College Guide to Careers in Public Service which advocates for incorporating a public good ethos into all employment sectors of society. Her current research interests include civic engagement outcomes from deliberative dialogue, and interethnic and racial coalition building. Ande holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University, an Ed .M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Certificate in Arts Management from the University of Massachusetts and is currently completing doctoral work on dialog and civic life at the Fielding Graduate University.
Janet Fore as been the Library Director at the Cushwa-Leighton Library at Saint Mary's College since 2003. She came to Saint Mary's from the University of Arizona Libraries where she served as a librarian nearly 20 years. She received her M.L.S. at the University of Arizona and her B.A. at Berea College.
Sarita Fritzler, a Baltimore native who spent her childhood living abroad, is a senior Political Science major with minors in Intercultural Studies and Women’s Studies. Sarita has been a part of the Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership since her freshmen year, where she has worked in the Study Abroad office and the Community Connections office. She helped developed the newest study abroad program in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and was among the first students to go abroad there. She loved her experience abroad and has a desire to go back one day and hopefully work there. She is also part of the pilot group for the new Certificate in Intercultural Leadership which she is very excited about. She hopes to spread the message of this wonderful new program throughout the college! In addition to her work at CWIL, Sarita is currently serving as the Chief of Staff on the Board of Governance and is also a Resident Advisor in Le Mans Hall. She is enjoying her senior year and is excited for life after college. She hopes to go into the Peace Corps after graduation, and then one day pursue law school for human rights. Sarita eventually hopes to join the U.S. Foreign Service and be an ambassador for the U.S. abroad.
Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) at Brown University. She joined Brown from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she was Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America. She has also taught at the City University of New York system, New York University, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Arizona, and the University of Michigan, as well as lectured at universities and research institutes in Mexico, Peru, Cuba, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. Evelyn often describes herself as a multicultural person who speaks several languages (including English, Chinese, French, and Spanish) and moves easily among several cultures. Her professional life has focused on what Cuban historian Juan Perez de la Riva calls "historia de la gente sin historia." She was born in China and immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was twelve. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, she studied in Brazil on an exchange program. She became fascinated with Latin America and that interest eventually led her to a Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1988 she left the City University of New York to become the CSREA Director at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has written two books on the Yaqui Indians and is now engaged in a large research project on the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Rachel Harding's understanding of religion was influenced by the southern folk Christianity of her grandparents who were from Leesburg and Cleages, Georgia, as well as by the Freedom Movement, in which she was raised during the 1960s in Atlanta. Rachel is also a member of the Terreito de Cobre candomblé community in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, where she experiences a rich connection between ancestral spirituality, social justice activism, and the ritual poetics of dance, prayer, and obligation. These spiritual influences and practices form the basis of her academic, creative, and activist work.
Rachel has an M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness, a history of the nineteenth century development of the Afro-Brazilian religion candomblé. Rachel currently teaches Religion at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. She has also taught Religion and African-American Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the Executive Director of The Veterans of Hope Project: A Center for the Study of Religion and Democratic Renewal at the Iliff School of Theology. The Veterans for Hope Project documents the life stories of community organizers, creative artists, religious leaders, and educators who have been active for many years in movements for compassionate social change. Through educational videos, public forums, workshops, retreats, consultations, and cultural events, the Project passes on the values, faith, and practices that have guided these "Veterans" in their work, with the goal of encouraging a healing-centered approach to community-building that recognizes the interconnectedness of spirit, creativity, and citizenship.
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, continues in retirement much as he did as the nation's senior university chief executive officer. His days are a blend of domestic and foreign travel, much of it as a member of international organizations; correspondence and phone calls; articles and speeches; guest appearances lecturing in Notre Dame classrooms; presiding over liturgies in University residence halls; and a quiet but important role advancing the interests of several Notre Dame academic institutes.
Father Hesburgh stepped down as head of Notre Dame on June 1, 1987, ending the longest tenure among active presidents of American institutions of higher learning. His major retirement role is developing several Notre Dame institutes and centers he was instrumental in founding, principally the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. The three other academic entities in which he continues to play a part each illustrate a contemporary issue in which Notre Dame's retired president continues to have an interest — the Center for Civil and Human Rights; Notre Dame's Hank Environmental Research Center near Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin; and the University's Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem.
Father Hesburgh was educated at Notre Dame and the Gregorian University in Rome, from which he received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1939. He was ordained a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross in Sacred Heart Church on the Notre Dame campus on June 24, 1943, by Bishop John F. Noll of Fort Wayne (IN). Following his ordination, Father Hesburgh continued his study of Sacred Theology at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., receiving his doctorate (S.T.D.) in 1945. He joined the Notre Dame faculty the same year and served as chaplain to World War II veterans on campus in addition to his teaching duties in the Religion Department. He was appointed the head of that department in 1948, and the following year was appointed Executive Vice President in the administration of Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., University President. At the age of 35 in June 1952, he was named the 15th President of Notre Dame.
Frances Hesselbein is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management). In 1998, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America’s highest civilian honor. The award recognized her leadership as Chief Executive Officer of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from 1976-1990, “a pioneer for women, diversity and inclusion.” Her contributions were also recognized by former President Bush, who appointed her to two presidential commissions on national and community service. She serves on many nonprofit and private sector corporate boards, including the Board of the Mutual of America Life Insurance Company and she is the Chairman of the national Board of Directors for Volunteers of America. She is the recipient of seventeen honorary doctoral degrees. In 2001, Mrs. Hesselbein was awarded the Henry A. Rosso Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Ethical Fund Raising from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and the International ATHENA Award. In 2002, Frances was the first recipient of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Security Series Award for her “outstanding contributions to America’s national security.” In 2004, Frances was awarded the Girl Scouts of the USA National Woman of Distinction Award and the American Society of Association Executive’s Visionary Award. She is Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal Leader to Leader, and a co-editor of a book of the same name. She also is a co-editor of the Drucker Foundation’s three-volume Future Series as well as Leading Beyond the Walls and Leading for Innovation, Organizing for Results, the first two books in the Foundation’s Wisdom to Action Series. She is the author of Hesselbein on Leadership, published in August of 2002. Be * Know * Do: Leadership the Army Way, introduced by General Erik K. Shinseki (USA Retired), Richard Cavanaugh, and Frances Hesselbein was published in February of 2004.
Barbara A. Hill is a Senior Associate in the Center for Leadership Development and International Initiatives of the American Council of Education (ACE). She previously served as President of Sweet Briar College, Provost of Denison University, and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Barnard College of Columbia University. Barbara has served the Association of American Colleges and Universities as editor of the quarterly Liberal Education and as a continuing Senior Fellow. She also has been on the Boards of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges. In addition, she also served on the Commission on Leadership Development and the Commission on Governmental Relations of ACE. Barbara holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Sister Anne Veronica Horner Hoe, C.S.C.
Sister Anne Veronica Horner Hoe, C.S.C. was born in Shanghai, China, and was raised in São Paulo, Brazil, where she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. She is Vice-Principal of a school (Colégio Santa Maria) with an enrollment of 3,250 which includes education from preschool to adult education. She has worked extensively with marginalized women, slum dwellers, at risk youth, and Basic Christian community formation. With degrees in Education, Philosophy, Theology, Language Arts, Business Administration, she has worked in schools in Bangladesh and Uganda. Most recently Sister Anne was the Coordinator of the Area of South America for the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross.
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson *
In the nation’s capital, Eddie Bernice Johnson is widely known as the “Gentlewoman from Texas.” She is now in her seventh term representing the citizens of the 30th Congressional District of Texas. Congresswoman Johnson is the ranking Democratic member of the House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Research, and Democratic Deputy Whip. As the highest ranking Texan on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, she has secured millions of dollars for Texas development, which has helped Dallas-Fort Worth become one of the fastest growing business areas in the country. Congresswoman Johnson was the first African American woman to ever win elected public office in Dallas. In 1972, she began her public career when she was elected to the Texas House of Representatives. She chaired the Labor Committee, becoming the first woman in Texas history to lead a major Texas House committee.
Congresswoman Johnson began her career as a nurse. She obtained her nursing preparation from Saint Mary's College and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Texas Christian University. She received a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Southern Methodist University. A businesswoman, Congresswoman Johnson has enjoyed a diverse career, including leadership in the private sector as founder of Eddie Bernice Johnson and Associates, a real estate business. She was also a founding member of the Board of Directors of Sunbelt National Bank.
Marlene Johnson is the Executive Director and CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the world’s largest membership organization of professionals in the field of international education exchange. Under her leadership, NAFSA has emerged as the leading advocate for international education and exchange during a period of growth in the field as well as increasing challenges to access to U.S. educational opportunities for the vast numbers of international students and scholars seeking to study in the United States. An entrepreneur and administrator, Ms. Johnson has three decades of leadership experience in government, business, and nonprofit management. As Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota from 1983 to 1991, she was an outspoken advocate of international educational exchange at the secondary and post secondary levels. Johnson’s commitment to international education issues has led to her service on the Board of Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange. She is also a former Board member of AFS-USA, AFS Intercultural Programs, the World Press Institute and the National Association of Women Business Owners. Currently, she also serves on the Board of the Communications Consortium Media Center in Washington, DC.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Adriana Lopez is a junior at Saint Mary’s College graduating in 2008; majoring in Social Work and a minor in Spanish. Adriana has worked for the Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership for two years, and has helped with a wide range of activities involving the center, such as the annual Wellsprings of Wisdom Conference and the Catalyst Trip. Adriana has had the opportunity to study abroad in El Salvador, Mexico and Spain all during her first and second year of college. She is currently the student representative for the Intercultural-International Advisory Committee for CWIL, as well as the international student representative for the Student Diversity Board at Saint Mary’s. She is an active member of the Social Work Club and La Fuerza Club, committed to educating students, faculty, staff and other people on campus about the Latino/a culture.
Tamar March is a Senior Fellow at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She brings to this position more than 30 years of experience leading educational reform initiatives in a variety of higher education environments. As an AAC&U Senior Fellow, Tamar works with the Office of the President on AAC&U's recent initiative, the Presidents' Campaign for the Advancement of Liberal Learning. She makes use of her extensive experience and relationships as she helps AAC&U design strategies to build support for liberal learning among business and civic leaders. With a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Romance Languages from Brooklyn College, Radcliffe College, and Harvard University, Tamar most recently served as Dean of the Radcliffe Center for Educational Programs at Harvard University from fall 1996 to summer 2002. Prior to this position, she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at New England College; Associate Provost, Provost, and Dean of Academic Affairs at Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Associate Dean at Clark University; Chair of Humanities at the New England Conservatory of Music; and Chair of Romance Languages at Saint Paul's College in Virginia. Her administrative experience is in curriculum and faculty development. She has directed several grant-funded faculty and curriculum development initiatives including projects under the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Gale Mattox is Chair of the Political Science Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. She was a founding member of Women in International Security (WIIS), Vice Presdent from 1987-1994, President from 1996-2003, and founder of the WIIS Summer Symposium. She is also co-chair of the Women's Caucus of the International Studies Association (ISA). She has served on the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State working on European and nonproliferation issues, including serving on the Task Force on North Korea and the Working Group for Extension of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Gale was a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow at the State Department Office of Strategic and Theater Nuclear Policy, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. She was also an international affairs analyst in the Congressional Research Service for foreign policy issues. Gale is the author of numerous articles on European security architecture, nonproliferation, and Germany as well as the co-author of Evolving European Defense Policies and NATO Enlargement: the National Debates. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Virginia.
Elizabeth Minnich serves as a Senior Fellow with the Association of American Colleges and Universities Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives. She draws on her considerable experience and her years of research on inclusive scholarship, curricula, teaching, and institutional practice to inform AAC&U's efforts to create more engaged and inclusive curricula and to cultivate new connections among liberal learning, democracy, and diversity. Elizabeth earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from The New School University, where she was a teaching assistant for Hannah Arendt. She is a leading national scholar on issues of democracy and education. Among Elizabeth’s many publications, her 1990 book, Transforming Knowledge, received the AAC&U Frederick W. Ness Award. A new, expanded edition of thisbook is presently in press. She also served as an advisor on AAC&U's national panel for American Commitments: Diversity, Democracy, and Liberal Learning, and served as scribe for that project's report, Liberal Learning and the Arts of Connection. She has served as a dean at several institutions and has taught or been an academic administrator at such institutions as The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, Hollins College, Barnard College, and The Union Institute. She is currently writing a new book with the working title Thinking Friends and Teachers: A Propos Hannah Arendt, Moral and Political Considerations.
Caryn McTighe Musil received her B.A. from Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University. Before moving into national level administrative work in higher education, she was a faculty member for eighteen years. She is currently Vice President of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global at the Association of American Colleges and Universities where she focuses on women's issues and diversity in higher education. She is also currently Project Director for Liberal Education and Global Citizenship: The Arts of Democracy, funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to work with institutions who want to incorporate global issues and social responsibility into the major. Caryn has been an educational consultant and outside evaluator at numerous colleges and universities, with a special interest in faculty and curriculum development, and has served as a reviewer and outside evaluator for FIPSE, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ford Foundation. A frequent keynote speaker at various national conferences, Caryn has been writing, teaching, and speaking on women, gender, and diversity throughout her career.
Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Carla Prando was raised in El Guache, New Mexico. After graduating from Saint Mary's College in 1992 with a BA in Philosophy and Political Science, she then attended Hastings College of the Law. She became a member of the New Mexico State Bar in 1995 and worked as a law clerk on the New Mexico Court of Appeals for Judge Thomas A. Donnelley. In 1999 she became an associate at Miller Stratvert P.A. practicing general civil litigation. In 2004, she began working at the Albuquerque City Council as their bill drafter. During the 2005 New Mexico Legislative Session, she served as legal counsel to the Speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives. She has served on the Saint Mary's College President's Alumnae Advisory Council from 1999 to 2003, and on the Board of the South Valley Rotary Club from 2001 through 2003.
As an alumna of Saint Mary's College, Rocio Sandoval has returned to her home country to serve as Director of Marketing for Mexico and Latin America for Procter & Gamble. While at Saint Mary's she represented Saint Mary's in the Notre Dame/Saint Mary's International Student Organization. In Mexico, she studied at Marymount School. She will be moving to Western Europe to the P&G headquarters in Geneva to work in the Wella Professional Care business.
Director of Advocate Centers
Director of Victim Services
United Religious Community
Marchell J. Wesaw was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana under the influence of a submerged Pokagon Potawatomi culture, of an economically exploited working family, and of a sound education provided by the local Catholic school systems. The strengths and weaknesses in these influences instilled in her a commitment to community activism and service. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Marchell initiated the Native American Youth Enrichment Program which was designed to help urban Indian children connect with their Native cultures and well as foster academic growth and enrichment. Upon completion of her law degree at Northeastern University School of Law, she directed public policy for Cultural Survival, a non-governmental organization advancing the rights of indigenous people around the world. With the federal re-affirmation of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the resources brought with it, Marchell returned to the South Bend area to assist the Band in the development of its Constitution and laws in governance, housing, health, and education, as well as its child welfare system and its economic enterprises. Marchell also served a term as Vice-Chairperson for the Band, making her the highest ranking female elected official in recent Band history.
Currently Marchell focuses her time serving St. Joseph County in Indiana. Previously she was the Director of the Healthy Communities Access Project, which provided medical health care access and services to low-income residents. Now Marchell serves as the Director of the Advocate Centers program for the United Religious Community of St. Joseph County. Marchell works with program advocates to link people seeking basic needs assistance with appropriate community resources that will help meet their immediate needs while promoting personal accountability and active participation in their lives.
* Saint Mary's College alumnae
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