MKLM - Key Persons
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- Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Catholic Theological Union
Colleen is vice president for institutional advancement at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, the graduate theological school where Maryknoll seminarians and sisters study. She previously served as director of advancement for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and is a former Jesuit Volunteer herself.
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- Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at Pittsburgh
Debbie is the executive vice president and chief investment officer at Pittsburgh-based Federated Hermes Inc., where she has worked for four decades. She has been an advocate, leader, participant and organizer of many volunteer activities, especially with United Way, for Alzheimer's research and on university boards.
Dee joined Maryknoll Lay Missioners in 2011 and serves as the Regional Advocacy Officer at Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) East Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. She previously worked with the Maryknoll Anlong Kngan Resettlement and Social Development Center in Phnom Penh. Before joining Maryknoll Lay Missioners, Dee served three years in missions in Jamaica and San Juan, Puerto Rico, and prior to that worked in an insurance company in Florida.
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- Associate General Counsel, Head of Labor & Employment at S & P
Grissel is the Associate General Counsel, Head of Labor & Employment at S&P Global. She has more than 20 years of legal advocacy and psychological counseling experience and has spent the last decade as an employment, labor and diversity, equity and inclusion counsel in Florida and New York. She is also an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law. Her Christian faith has been important to her all of her life.
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- Associate Director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University
Kim is the associate director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University. She previously served with Catholic Charities USA and for 13 years as the relationship manager for national partnerships at Catholic Relief Services. She has more than two decades of experience in community outreach and domestic and international advocacy.
Marie is the former co-president and now senior advisor to the secretary general of Pax Christi International, a member of the executive committee of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, the longtime director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns and was the facilitator of Maryknoll Lay Missioners' 2021-22 Mission Assembly process.
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- Senior Vice President at the Northern Trust Bank
Mary Doucette is a senior vice president at the Northern Trust Bank in Chicago and has been involved in many social-justice organizations. In 2017 Mary and her husband, Vic, launched the website Social Justice Resource Center. That year, the two also participated in a Maryknoll delegation to Tanzania.
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- Director of Communications
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- Retired International Development Executive
Michael is a retired international development executive whose primary goals are to actively apply his faith to increase the love, grace and joy of Jesus Christ in the lives of the world's poor and neglected people; and to add professional expertise and value to organizations supporting such activities. He most recently served as the chief financial officer of the Catholic Medical Mission Board and, prior to that, spent 32 years with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
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- Partner at Baker McKenzie
Michelle is a partner at Baker McKenzie, where she is a member of the law firm's Global Corporate and Securities Practice Group. Michelle's industry experience includes clients in the energy, telecommunications, financial services and technology sectors.
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- Managing Director
- Senior Director
Mike is a managing director/senior director of legal services and global transactions at Accenture, a global management consulting and professional services company. Mike has been involved with Maryknoll Lay Missioners since 2010, when he participated in his first of several Friends Across Borders and other mission immersion trips.